LA Supreme Court Overturns Death Sentence, Citing Discredited Forensic Evidence.
The Louisiana Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court’s decision overturning the 1998 murder conviction of former death row prisoner Jimmie “Chris” Duncan. The ruling, which cited discredited forensic evidence, effectively ended the last remaining death sentence based substantially on the work of controversial Mississippi forensic dentist Michael West and pathologist Steven Hayne.
