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Valena Beety: Buffey case shows W.Va. must record police interrogations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Eighteen months ago, DNA testing proved that Joseph Buffey did not rape an elderly Clarksburg woman in a 2001 brutal assault. Yet Mr. Buffey continues to serve a 40-year sentence for the crime that science shows he did not commit.
This month, Innocence Project attorneys revealed the DNA matched a different person: Adam Bowers, who is currently incarcerated in West Virginia for another crime. Prosecutors continue to resist releasing Mr. Buffey for one reason: he confessed and pled guilty.
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Valena Beety: Buffey case shows W.Va. must record police interrogations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Eighteen months ago, DNA testing proved that Joseph Buffey did not rape an elderly Clarksburg woman in a 2001 brutal assault. Yet Mr. Buffey continues to serve a 40-year sentence for the crime that science shows he did not commit.
This month, Innocence Project attorneys revealed the DNA matched a different person: Adam Bowers, who is currently incarcerated in West Virginia for another crime. Prosecutors continue to resist releasing Mr. Buffey for one reason: he confessed and pled guilty.
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