BACKGROUND: "Zadorov, convicted in 2010 and again in 2014 of murdering the 14-year-old girl at the Nofei Golan Middle School in Katzrin, has been the subject of great controversy and speculation, as doubts have been raised regarding his guilt. Even Rada's mother, Ilana, has publicly stated that she believes Zadorov was wrongly convicted. Former Supreme Court deputy chief justice Hanan Melcer announced in Maythat he has approved the request for a retrial for Zadorov."
Jerusalem Post:
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STORY: "State prosecutor announces retrial of convicted killer of 13-year old Tair Rada," The Times of Israel reports on July 14, 2021.
GIST: "The State Prosecutor’s Office tells the Nazareth District Court that it has decided to reopen the trial of Roman Zadorov, sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 13-year-old girl despite his repeated assertions he had been wrongly convicted.
Zadorov, a Ukrainian-Israeli handyman, has spent more than a decade in prison for the brutal 2006 murder of Tair Rada.
The decision of State Prosecutor Amit Aisman comes after the Supreme Court said in May that there was sufficient reasonable doubt to exonerate Zadorov and a retrial should be held.
Rada was found dead in a bathroom stall in her Katzrin school in the Golan Heights, with slashes to her neck, stab wounds across her body and severe blows to her head. Shortly after the murder, Zadorov, who was employed at the school at the time as a maintenance worker, was arrested and charged with the killing."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/state-prosecutor-announces-retrial-of-convicted-killer-of-13-year-old-tair-rada/
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they’ve exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
