Locked up for more than three decades for murder, Gilbert Lee Poole, Jr. had been serving a life sentence since 1989 based largely on a form of forensic evidence once widely used but no longer deemed reliable: bite mark analysis. Now that DNA evidence has ruled him out as the killer, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) hailed his exoneration as the debut act of her two-year-old Conviction Integrity Unit.
— Read on lawandcrime.com/high-profile/man-imprisoned-for-three-decades-based-on-bite-marks-exonerated-of-murder-by-michigan-ags-conviction-integrity-unit/
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