In 1987: A Double Murder in Dallas Built on Junk Science
Steven Mark Chaney spent more than twenty-five years wrongfully imprisoned for the 1987 Dallas murders of John and Sally Sweek, convicted on bite mark evidence later discredited as junk science; the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared him innocent in December 2018.
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