{"id":5221,"date":"2022-10-31T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/2022\/10\/31\/adn-prueba-la-inocencia-de-hombre-encarcelado-por-38-anos\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:47:04","slug":"adn-prueba-la-inocencia-de-hombre-encarcelado-por-38-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/2022\/10\/31\/adn-prueba-la-inocencia-de-hombre-encarcelado-por-38-anos\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA proves innocence of man jailed for 38 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5221\" class=\"elementor elementor-5221 elementor-2434\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9f704d6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9f704d6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c7d310a\" data-id=\"c7d310a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-762810a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"762810a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In a case of international impact, an American citizen <strong>was declared innocent in October 2022<\/strong> after having spent almost four decades in prison for the crime of homicide. <strong>DNA evidence found on the victim in 1983<\/strong> eventually proved the culpability of another man on a criminal DNA database for kidnapping, and it proved <strong>69-year-old Maurice Hastings completely innocent.<\/strong>There has been criticism that it takes so long for the relevant authorities to subject biological evidence (semen) to DNA testing and compare it with the US criminal DNA database. The case is an example of why criminal DNA databases are so important to protect the innocent and identify the guilty. See the article below in English for more details.<br><br><\/p><p>Original source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-63437208.amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US man who spent nearly four decades in prison for murder has been released after new DNA evidence pointed to a different person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justiciaforense.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}