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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
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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
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The Significance of John Wise’s Car*
When Willie Manning was first indicted for the murders of two students, he was charged with kidnaping as well; the prosecutors later abandoned the kidnaping charge and substituted robbery. Both kidnaping and robbery allowed them to seek the death penalty … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, fingerprint comparison, John Wise, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged burglary, Circuit Court of Oktibbeha County, fingerprint analysis, fingerprint comparison, Fly Manning, forensics, Injustice, John Wise, John Wise's car, Jon Steckler, kidnaping, Mississippi, Mississippi State University, November 2018, robbery, Starkville, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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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
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Status Update
A Mississippi Supreme Court letter last month confirmed that Willie Manning’s lawyers were trying to proceed with DNA testing on hair from his remaining case. The December letter requests a status update: “The last status update in the above case, as … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic testing, hair testimony, Mississippi Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensics, hair analysis, hair testimony, January 2017, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, State of Mississippi Judiciary, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Jim Hood: undermining the rights of criminal defendants
It seems that while Willie Manning has been languishing in his cell, the Attorney General, Jim Hood, has been busy harassing experienced capital defense lawyers in Mississippi. Radley Balko relates that Hood has found a way to do this by using … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, Jim Hood, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital murder, capital punishment, Chris Fabricant, criminal defendants, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, forensics, Injustice, Innocence Project, Jim Hood Attorney General, legal rights, Michael West, Mississippi, September 2016, Tucker Carrington, USA, Vanessa Potts, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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DNA Tests: Errors Can Occur
In recent years we have come to think of DNA testing as a ‘gold standard’ that can convict or exonerate. But forensics experts urge caution. William Thompson declares: “DNA tests are not now and have never been infallible. Errors in … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, forensics, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, corruption, death penalty, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensics, incompetence, January 2016, Kathleen Jordan, Michael Lynch, Mississippi, Nathan Robinson, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Ruth McNally, Simon A. Cole, USA, William C.Thompson, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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FBI Hair Analysis: Favoring the Prosecution
‘Flawed Forensics’, episode 3 of the Al Jazeera America series, ‘The System’, is about what is termed ‘an FBI scandal of manipulated forensic evidence that may have led to thousands of wrongful convictions over the past three decades’. We hear from … Continue reading
Posted in Al Jazeera, American justice, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, Death Row, FBI hair review, Fly Manning, forensic hair testimony, forensics, hair testimony, Injustice, junk science, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, USA injustice, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, Al Jazeera America The System, death penalty, DNA testing, FBI hair analysis, Fly Manning, forensics, Fred Whitehurst, hair testimony, Injustice, John Huffington, Joseph Diginova, June 2014, Michael Bromwich, microscopic hair analysis, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, Ryan Malone, United States Department of Justice, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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Al Jazeera: Program due June 1
A new TV program featuring Willie Jerome Manning is scheduled to be broadcast on Sunday June 1 2014 (USA times: 9E/6P). The program is an episode in the Al Jazeera America series, The System, which sets out to examine the state … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, African American, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera The System, conviction, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, forensic hair testimony, forensics, Injustice, Joe Berlinger, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, May 2014, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Pam Cole, Tiffany Miller, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Justice for Willie Manning 