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Tankersley to get DNA testing - April 24, 2002
From: http://home.iprimus.com.au/dna_info/dna/JA_DNA_news_20020408a.html
Another
Arizona death row prisoner convicted largely on bite mark evidence provided
by forensic
dentist
and US Senator Raymond Rawson will obtain DNA testing which may overturn
his
conviction,
reports Associated Press.
Bobby
Tankersley was convicted in 1993 of the rape and murder of 65- year-old
Thelma Younkin
on
a combination of circumstantial and forensic evidence, including Rawson's
testimony that his teeth
matched
a bite mark found on the victim.
Tankersley
also secretes H antigens - which were found in saliva recovered from the
wound - and
has
a DQ-alpha DNA profile matching blood recovered from a sink at the crime
scene. While this is
consistent
with him being the killer it would also match several thousand other US
men.
In
an unusual move, the prosecution has requested that Tankersley's conviction
be verified with
DNA
testing, in spite of having previously rejected the prisoner's requests
for independent analysis of
forensic
evidence prior to his unsuccessful 1998 appeal.
DNA Testing for Death Row Inmate
AP - News 12 KPNX-TV Phoenix, AZ
From: http://www.12news.com/headline/DNA042402.html
Prosecutors
are seeking DNA testing for another Arizona death-row inmate. Two weeks
ago, DNA technology freed Ray Krone, a Phoenix man who served ten years
for a 1991 Phoenix murder he didn't commit.
The
Attorney General's Office now has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to order
DNA tests in the case of Bobby Tankersley. He was convicted in 1993 and
sentenced to death in the rape and killing of a 65-year-old woman who lived
in the same Yuma motel where he lived.
Both
Tankersley and Krone were convicted chiefly on bite marks found on the
victims' bodies.
In
both cases, the testimony of forensic dentist Raymond Rawson was used to
convince juries of the killer's identity.
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