"Taylor had exhausted his appeals, but the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission reviewed the evidence against him and recommended the case to the three-judge panel for further review. During several days of testimony, a parade of witnesses poked holes in the original evidence against Taylor.
An SBI agent testified that while initial tests on some items from Taylor's sport utility vehicle were positive for blood, follow-up tests were negative. Those negative tests were not revealed to the jury that convicted Taylor."
WTVD;
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"RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Attorneys for Greg Taylor filed a civil suit Tuesday against five former agents and supervisors with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation," the WTVD story begins, under the heading "Taylor sues 5 former SBI agents."
"The lawsuit alleges that Taylor was convicted of murder in 1991 based on a "deliberately misleading SBI report," the story continues.
"Named as defendants are agents Peter Duane Deaver, Joseph S. Taub, Mark Nelson, Ralph Keaton, and Harold Elliot.
Taylor spent 17 years in prison for the murder of Jacquetta Thomas, but a three-judge panel found him innocent and released him from jail last year.
Taylor had exhausted his appeals, but the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission reviewed the evidence against him and recommended the case to the three-judge panel for further review. During several days of testimony, a parade of witnesses poked holes in the original evidence against Taylor.
An SBI agent testified that while initial tests on some items from Taylor's sport utility vehicle were positive for blood, follow-up tests were negative. Those negative tests were not revealed to the jury that convicted Taylor.
The Taylor case has been a black eye for the SBI and allegations of mishandled evidence led Attorney General Roy Cooper to replace the bureau director and the director of the SBI's crime lab last fall."
The story can be found at:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8219866
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html
Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog; hlevy15@gmail.com;
