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Journal: National Registry of Exonerations and Innocence Project

Published: 2023

Primary Author: Simon Cole

Secondary Authors: Vanessa Meterko, Sarah Chu, Glinda Cooper, Jessica Weinstock Paredes, Maurice Possley, Ken Otterbourg

This report is from Simon A. Cole, Vanessa Meterko, Sarah Chu, Glinda Cooper, Jessica Weinstock Paredes, Maurice Possley, and Ken Otterbourg (2022), The Contribution of Forensic and Expert Evidence to DNA Exoneration Cases: An Interim Report (National Registry of Exonerations and Innocence Project), https://n2t.net/ark:/88112/x2g890. Posted with permission of CSAFE.


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