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  "raw_text": "At about 11 p.m. on Oct. 25, 1998, a 41-year-old woman was abducted by two men at gunpoint from her apartment parking lot in Houston, Texas. They forced her into her Ford Expedition and sexually assaulted her, before eventually leaving her in a field in neighboring Fort Bend County. The woman, identified as P.S., told police that her assailants were both young Black males, about 5 foot 7 inches tall, and 130 pounds. One of the men wore a wool cap, and the other wore a baseball cap turned to the side.\n\nFive days later, P.S. was on her way home when she noticed three men on the street, two of whom she thought she recognized by their hats. Houston police picked up the men and took them to the police station parking lot, where P.S. was parked in her car. From a distance of about 10 feet, she told police she was positive that the two young men with the hats \u2014 16-year-old Josiah Sutton and 17-year-old Gregory Adams \u2014 were her attackers. At the time, Josiah was about 6 inches taller and 60 pounds heavier than P.S.\u2019 description of either of her assailants. Josiah and Gregory were arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault. As part of the investigation, crime scene evidence \u2014 a rape kit, swabs of the car, and P.S.\u2019 clothing \u2014 was given to the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory. In January 1999, the lab also received comparison samples from P.S., Josiah, and Gregory. By then, Josiah had just turned 17 and was certified to stand trial as an adult. At the time, the crime lab conducted DNA analysis using an early form of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) analysis, rather than the more recently developed and discriminating Short Tandem Repeat (STR) analysis that later became the standard procedure. The DNA analysis, performed by analyst Christy Kim, implicated Josiah but excluded Gregory, who was then released.\n\nJosiah told his attorney, Charles Herbert, that the DNA results were impossible. Mr. Herbert told him: \u201cWell, I\u2019m sorry, man, but that\u2019s what they came up with.\u201d The crime lab had performed DNA analyses on several samples from the crime scene during two separate tests. The first test, on Feb. 23, 1999, compared vaginal swabs and sperm from the crime scene to DNA samples from the two teenagers. The second, performed two days later, used samples from P.S.\u2019 jeans as well as semen found on a seat in the middle row of her car. These second test samples were recorded as \u201cSample #1\u201d in the lab notebook. On April 23, 1999, Mr. Herbert reached an agreement with prosecutors to submit any remaining samples to an independent lab for testing. The samples were sent to a company in Dallas, Texas, on May 13. Josiah\u2019s family paid $600 to start the analysis. However, because Mr. Herbert did not authorize the company to proceed, the testing was never performed.\n\nIn July 1999, Josiah Sutton went to trial in Harris County Criminal District Court. The prosecution\u2019s case was based on P.S.\u2019 identification and the DNA evidence. Ms. Kim told the jury that several genetic markers, known as alleles, were consistent between the rape kit and Josiah, and that 1 in 694,000 Black persons could be expected to have these alleles. Mr. Herbert\u2019s cross-examination was limited to focusing on lab protocols and chain-of-custody issues. He did not retain an expert to review the lab\u2019s work, to explain to him the science, or to testify about the results. Josiah Sutton was convicted on July 9, 1999, and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Josiah appealed his conviction to the 14th District Court of Appeals in Harris County. He claimed ineffective assistance of counsel, because Mr. Herbert had failed to obtain independent testing of the DNA. Additionally, Mr. Herbert\u2019s direct examination of Josiah included questions about a prior misdemeanor conviction for possession of a weapon, which opened the door to prosecution questions about his past criminal conduct.\n\nA Texas appellate court rejected Mr. Sutton\u2019s appeal on Jan. 18, 2001. It noted that he could not show how a failure to independently test the DNA was prejudicial. \u201cThe State\u2019s DNA evidence which implicated appellant and led to the dismissal of charges against others accused, is not seriously challenged,\u201d the court wrote.\n\nIn 2001, Josiah Sutton drafted a motion to request DNA testing under a newly passed post-conviction statute. Although the statute technically didn\u2019t apply to him \u2014 it was intended for incarcerated individuals who had not had DNA testing performed at the time of trial \u2014 Bob Wicoff of the Harris County Public Defender\u2019s Office was appointed to represent Mr. Sutton in March 2002.\n\nSeparately, two reporters with KHOU-TV, Anna Werner and David Raziq, had begun investigating the Houston crime lab after receiving a tip from local defense attorneys about problems with the lab\u2019s work. They gathered records and sent them to two independent experts \u2014 William Thompson, with the University of California Irvine; and Elizabeth Johnson, the former director of the DNA lab at the Harris County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.\n\nAn investigative story on the lab was broadcast in November 2002. Mr. Sutton\u2019s mother, Carol Batie, caught the story on television and called the station to convince the reporters to investigate her son\u2019s case. Mr. Sutton\u2019s file was sent to Mr. Thompson for analysis.\n\nFirst, Mr. Thompson noted that the lab had obtained two different results when typing P.S.\u2019 sample. He didn\u2019t know why this had happened, but he wrote, \u201cThe fact that the laboratory obtained different profiles when typing samples from the same person raises profound concerns about the reliability of its procedures.\u201d\n\nMr. Thompson used a genetic database of Black males in Texas as a reference point, and found that there was about a 1 in 15 chance that any Black man in Texas could be included as a possible contributor to the sperm sample taken from P.S. Because two men were suspected and identified by P.S. in the show-up outside her car, the probability of one man or the other being found consistent with the sample doubled.\n\n\u201cIn other words,\u201d Mr. Thompson wrote, \u201cin any randomly selected pairs of Black men in Texas, there is better than 1 chance in 8 that at least one man would be \u2018included\u2019 as a possible contributor to the vaginal sperm fraction. In my opinion, this is the statistic that the jury needed in order to assign proper meaning to the DNA \u2018match\u2019 found in this case.\u201d\n\nFinally, Mr. Thompson addressed the significance of \u201cSample #1,\u201d taken from the backseat of the P.S.\u2019 car. The lab report had erroneously stated that DNA types consistent with Mr. Sutton were found on this sample, when in fact, he had been excluded.\n\nAt one point, during Ms. Kim\u2019s testimony at the initial trial, the prosecutor cut her off as she began discussing Sample #1. The prosecutor said sharply, \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about the unknown sample, okay?\u201d It was never brought up again. Following the TV station\u2019s report on Mr. Sutton\u2019s case, the crime lab retested the DNA evidence. This time, the results excluded Mr. Sutton. On March 11, 2003, a judge ordered Mr. Sutton released, while Mr. Wicoff pursued a state law writ of habeas through the courts or a pardon by Governor Rick Perry.\n\nDistrict Attorney Chuck Rosenthal said he would support Mr. Sutton\u2019s pardon request if Mr. Sutton would submit to a final round of DNA testing. He agreed, and was again excluded. The prosecution still declined to support a pardon based on innocence, noting that the victim had not recanted her identification of Mr. Sutton. In addition, the prosecution opposed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which asserted that prosecutors had committed misconduct by failing to see the errors in Ms. Kim\u2019s analysis. On March 14, 2004, Gov. Perry granted Mr. Sutton a pardon based on innocence. On Oct. 1, 2005, Mr. Sutton was approved to receive $118,000 in compensation, plus a monthly annuity of $1,700.\n\nThe unidentified DNA profile was entered into the FBI\u2019s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). On May 9, 2006, the Houston Police Department was notified by CODIS that the sample had been matched to the profile of a man named Donald Young. After further testing, Mr. Young was arrested on June 11, 2006 and charged with aggravated sexual assault. He pleaded guilty in January 2007 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As part of his plea, Mr. Young told prosecutors that he committed the crime with a man named Damon Batiste, who had later died in prison.",
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