Conviction in 1994 Boulder murder thrown out over flawed DNA work by Missy Woods

Marty Grisham A judge overturned the conviction in a Boulder murder matter Friday because of flawed DNA testing by disgraced Colorado Bureau of Inquiry scientist Yvonne Missy Woods It s the first situation to be thrown out since the CBI beginning in discovered hundreds of criminal investigations in which Woods cut corners in her DNA testing a outrage that has cost Colorado millions of dollars already and shaken the state s criminal justice system Boulder District Court Judge Nancy Woodruff Salomone vacated the first-degree murder conviction of -year-old Michael Clark who has been serving a sentence of life without parole since being convicted in in the cold-case shooting death of Boulder city employee Marty Grisham A hearing is scheduled for June at which Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty is expected to announce whether or not he will retry Clark on charges stemming from the killing This is a really good day commented Adam Frank Clark s attorney Michael Clark s conviction is gone Dougherty had filed a motion late Friday afternoon asking the judge to vacate Clark s conviction because Woods interpretation of the DNA testing in the Grisham incident is now in question after an independent lab retested crime scene evidence Based on those results as well as the important proposes of juror misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel our office determined that the conviction must be vacated Doughtery declared in a declaration It is the right thing to do after considering all three issues In light of the charges in this occurrence we will rigorously and thoroughly analyze all the evidence to determine the right and just outcome The juror misconduct claim involved the discovery that one of the jurors ignored the judge s instructions and visited the crime scene during the trial according to the DA s motion With the conviction vacated Clark s bail is reinstated according to prosecutors He is expected to be transferred to the Boulder County Jail from the Fremont Correctional Facility on Monday and is eligible to be disclosed if he posts bail He is married and has three children We want to get him home to them as soon as humanly realizable Frank noted Inside the inspection of a CBI scientist s years of misconduct God forbid we have someone in prison that shouldn t be This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e input if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i