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State witness at trial who later recanted her trial testimony against Hank.

The Palmar Injury – Unchallenged Misleading Testimony

District Attorney John Mann successfully attempted to solicit purely speculative incriminating testimony at trial from Dr. Elizabeth Peacock (State's pathologist). In doing so, Mann was attempting to introduce witness "evidence" based on assumption, not proven fact. Presiding judge, Judge Sims overruled a defense objection to this prosecution tactic. Steven C. Losch, Attorney at … Continue Reading ››

Blood and Print Evidence

There was a massive amount of evidence available in the form of potential murder weapons, blood spatter evidence and hand and fingerprints. Careful testing of this evidence could have eliminated Hank Skinner from the murder enquiries and perhaps even provided an indication as to who the attacker actually was. Yet the state experts … Continue Reading ››