Thursday, December 27, 2018

WILL DNA EXONERATE CALIFORNIA DEATH ROW INMATE?

Gov. Brown Orders New DNA Tests In 1983 Kevin Cooper Murder Case

LAPPL News Watch
December 26, 2018

Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday ordered new DNA tests that a condemned inmate says could clear him in a San Bernardino County 35-year-old quadruple murder case, which has drawn national attention.

Brown ordered tests of four pieces of evidence that Kevin Cooper and his attorneys say will show he was framed for the 1983 Chino Hills hatchet and knife killings of four people. The items that will be tested are a tan T-shirt and orange towel found near the scene and the hatchet handle and sheath.

Cooper was convicted in 1985 of killing Doug and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica and 11-year-old neighbor Christopher Hughes.

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