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Four pathologists back Swearengen's innocence claim

By "Persian Cowboy"

Chuck Lindel of Austin American-Statesman is reporting that four pathologists, including one who helped to send Swearingen to death-row, now believe that he was innocent of the 1998 murder. By Chuck LindellAMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, January 24, 2009 Four forensic pathologists agree that Larry Swearingen, set to be executed Tuesday, could not have committed the 1998 murder that sent him to death row. The four include the medical examiner whose testimony helped secure Swearingen's guilty verdict. That medical examiner now says college student Melissa Trotter's curiously preserved body could not have lain in the East Texas woods for more than 14 days ? and probably was there for a much shorter time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).