Oregon man's murder conviction vacated after 35 years due to discredited bitemark evidence
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Haleigh Kochanski, Bayla Orton
Summary
Robert Wallace Lyons, 61, had his 1990 murder conviction for the killing of Lori Stabenow vacated after 35 years in prison, becoming the first Oregonian to benefit from a new law discrediting bitemark analysis as forensic evidence. The court ruled that the conviction was based on flawed and now-discredited expert testimony regarding bitemark evidence, which infected the entire trial with constitutional error. The case highlights the growing nationwide reckoning with junk science in the criminal justice system.
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· 1 pulledMr. Lyons conviction was based on flawed and now-discredited expert testimony related to bitemark evidence, and that testimony infected his entire trial with error of consequential constitutional dimension that could have tended to affect the outcome of the case and undermined the underlying fairness of the trial
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