Mr. Shaman
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"This is a damning indictment of the entire serology section," said Mary Pollard, executive director of Prisoner Legal Services. Her agency will begin reviewing the cases of 80 defendants who are currently in prison. "It is absolutely horrifying."
The criminal convictions or sentences of three people who have since been executed in North Carolina, and four more cases in which the defendants are now on death row, are may be in doubt because of flawed reports."
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"Special Agent Duane Deaver was placed on leave while the investigation continues and it was Deaver's testimony in the case of Greg Taylor that started it all.
Taylor was exonerated in February for a 1991 murder after Deaver admitted he reported a substance was blood when tests later showed it wasn't."
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