Ch. 8 - Lights and Sirens

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of our reporting, another man is exonerated based on Mary Jane Burton’s clippings – Winston Scott. But one thing isn’t clear: why was Scott convicted in the first place? Reporter Tessa Kramer takes the original serology reports to an expert. Did Burton have a hand in Scott’s conviction? More information on the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, including former MAIP attorneys Frances Walters and Parisa Dehghani-Tafti: https://exonerate.org/ More information on the case of Winston Scott: https://exonerate.org/all-project-list/winston-scott/ More information on serologist Marilyn Miller of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU): https://news.vcu.edu/article/marilyn_miller_crime_scene_guru_and_founding_forensic_science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	From Story Mechanics and VPM. Now to a story that's all new at 11, an innocent man is finally free of the crime that ruined his life.
0:40.0	In the spring of 2019 in the midst of my reporting news broke of a 13th man being cleared.
0:47.0	Winston Scott was convicted of raping a woman more than 40 years ago, but it turns out he's innocent.
0:53.0	The Virginia Supreme Court just cleared his name.
0:56.3	Winston Scott was cleared by DNA testing on Mary Jane Burton's clippings.
1:01.3	But how was he convicted in the first place? The blood
1:04.8	testing performed back then returned murky results, but Winston was
1:09.1	convicted anyway. Hearing about murky blood testing results in Winston Scott's case, I'm reminded of something
1:16.8	Gina Demis said about Mary Jane's role in these 13 exoneration cases.
1:22.3	They probably think she's the greatest basis. in these 13 exoneration cases.
1:23.1	They probably think she's the greatest thing that's sliced bread
1:25.6	because she saved their bacon.
1:27.2	They don't know that she fried them in the first place.
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