No Exonerations After Reviewing 14,000 Old Cases With DNA
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Hennepin County authorities released the results of a study that reviewed more than 14,000 criminal convictions from the 1980s through the 1990s Wednesday.
Authorities wanted to determine in DNA technology could exonerate any of the convicted felons from across the state.
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Innocence Project of Minnesota and the Office of Minnesota's Board of Public defense obtained a federal grant to review the convictions.
On Wednesday morning, the results were revealed. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said there were no exonerations.
He did point out however, that two cases are still open.
One is the Billy Glaze serial killing case from Minneapolis.
Glaze was convicted in 1989 of killing Kathleen Bullman, Angelina Whitebird Sweet and Angela Green. They were raped, murdered and mutilated in similar ways.
The Minnesota Innocence Project had been arguing in court that new DNA testing linked another man to the murders and did not link Glaze to the crimes.