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- Shocking Deaths January 12, 2020
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Tag Archives: DNA testing
The Puzzle of the Hair Fragments
At Willie Manning’s trial, an FBI hair expert testified about hair fragments vacuumed from Tiffany Miller’s car. The expert stated that the hair was African American (an assertion that the FBI and DOJ discredited in 2013). With no physical evidence … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, forensic hair testimony, hair testimony, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Bode Technology, DNA testing, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, hair testimony, Injustice, Judge Lee Howard, May 2020, Mississippi, MitoTyping Technologies, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
Grounds for Optimism
2019 is drawing to a close on an optimistic note! Willie Manning’s fellow death row inmate, Curtis Flowers, has finally been granted freedom (on bail) after being subjected to six trials during nearly two decades. The improper prosecutor strikes for … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Mississippi, racism, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2019, black jurors, capital punishment, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Death Row, December 2019, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic evidence, hair evidence, juror strikes, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Manning
Twenty-Five Years on Death Row
Today, November 10, 2019, marks 25 years since Willie Manning first entered death row. A jury had found him guilty of murdering Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler, despite no physical evidence linking him to the murders. Two years later Willie … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, fingerprint analysis, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2019, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Racially Charged Injustice
Like Willie Manning, Rodney Reed is on death row in the south of the USA, with a case that is racially charged: Reed, who is black, was found guilty by an all-white jury of murdering a white woman in Texas … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, racism, Rodney Reed, Texas, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, all-white jury, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, execution, flawed forensic testimony, Governor Greg Abbott, Innocence Project, Mississippi, October 2019, racism, Rodney Reed, Texas, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Happy 51st birthday!
Today, Wednesday June 12, 2019, is Willie Manning’s 51st birthday. We wish him a very happy birthday. On the surface not much has changed for Willie over the last year, but there are signs that the Mississippi Supreme Court is … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic evidence, hair analysis, innocence, June 2019, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Parchman, USA, Willie Manning, Willie Manning Mississippi, wrongful convictions
DNA Testing Resumes
It seems that Judge Howard’s Scheduling Order, issued in February, is working! Willie Manning must be relieved that more hairs from his case are at last being screened at the Bode Technology lab. The lab anticipates that this stage of the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, April 2019, Bode Technology, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensics, hair evidence, Judge Howard, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Scheduling Order, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
A Timetable for Testing
Judge Howard of the Oktibbeha County Court has set limits to the time to be spent on DNA testing for Willie Manning’s remaining case. The judge has issued a Scheduling Order, which sets out a timetable to be followed both by … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Bode Cellmark, capital punishment, Circuit Court of Oktibbeha County, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, February 2019, Fly Manning, forensics, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, Judge Howard, Judge Lee Howard, Mississippi, Scheduling Order, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
DNA Testing: Dates to be Set
A court has insisted that testing of DNA evidence for Willie Manning’s remaining case cannot be deferred indefinitely. The Circuit Court of Oktibbeha County yesterday ordered that the prosecution and defense must “set final dates for the testing of the DNA … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, Circuit Court of Oktibbeha County, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA evidence, DNA testing, Fly Manning, January 2019, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman, post-conviction cases, Starkville, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
DNA Profiles: the Latest
An update on the progress of DNA testing in Willie Manning’s case has been issued. The statement refers to hair samples, which we understand to be fragments vacuumed from the floor of Tiffany Miller’s car,* and to other items that are … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, forensics, hair testimony, May 2018, Mississippi, mitochondrial DNA, Robert Mink, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
DNA Testing: Update
A letter filed on Thursday by Rob Mink, one of Willie Manning’s attorneys, states that 18 hair fragments contained in exhibits from Willie’s Steckler-Miller case are to be tested. The testing is predicted to take about fourteen weeks. The letter reveals … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, flawed forensics, flawed testimony, Fly Manning, forensic testing, hair testimony, January 2018, Mississippi, Robert Mink, Steckler-Miller case, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
