he District Attorney’s Office has alerted lawyers for more than 250 defendants who were convicted over a 13-year period that their conviction relied in part on using a now-discredited DNA interpretation method — and they may have a chance at a re-examination of their case.
The notice, a two-page letter from interim District Attorney Summer Stephan sent to lawyers starting Monday, could have the effect of changing guilty verdicts handed down by juries at trials from 2003 through 2016. The office sent out letters on 254 cases, all involving convictions of either violent or serious felonies.
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