From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 19:32:37 MST
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/national/06DNA.html?todaysheadlines
He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison.
Recent tests by two laboratories hired by the
prosecution and the defense came up with the
same results: both rapes were committed by the
same man, and that man was not Bruce
Godschalk.
Even so, the Montgomery County district
attorney, Bruce L. Castor Jr., whose office
convicted Mr. Godschalk, has refused to let Mr.
Godschalk out of prison, saying he believes that
Mr. Godschalk is guilty and that the DNA testing
is flawed.
Asked what scientific basis he had for concluding
that the testing was flawed, Mr. Castor said in an
interview today: "I have no scientific basis. I
know because I trust my detective and my
tape-recorded confession. Therefore the results
must be flawed until someone proves to me
otherwise."
Damn pointy headed scientists!
Damien Broderick
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