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Doesn't surprise me but still sick.
Did police frame a convicted man? Old murder case gets another look
By DEE J. HALL
608-252-6132
February 28, 2009
It’s a story that stretches the bounds of credulity: Police arrest a man, pour blood on him and plant a blood-smeared knife in his truck to frame him for a murder he didn’t commit.
Prosecutors and police then withhold, alter and destroy the evidence that could let the man prove his innocence.
Kenneth Hudson’s account of what happened the day 19-year-old UW-Madison student Shanna Van Dyn Hoven was stabbed to death in Kaukauna in 2000 may seem improbable.
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http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/440992
Hudson motion alleges misconduct
By DEE J. HALL
608-252-6132
February 28, 2009
Kenneth Hudson’s motion for a new trial alleges dozens of instances of misconduct by Outagamie County prosecutors Vince Biskupic and Carrie Schneider and police officers including Kaukauna Police Chief John Manion in the investigation into the murder of Shanna Van Dyn Hoven of Kaukauna. Among them:
• Citing photos and police testimony, prosecutors alleged Hudson’s leg, torso and hands were covered in Van Dyn Hoven’s blood when he was arrested. But a state Crime Laboratory analysis found the victim’s DNA only on Hudson’s right hand. On his left leg, the laboratory found blood but determined it was "not human blood." Tests by an independent laboratory in 2005 found only Hudson’s DNA or no DNA in 11 samples kept by Kaukauna police.
• Prosecutors said Hudson had the victim’s blood on his hands when he led police on a high-speed chase. But state Crime Laboratory reports released years after Hudson’s conviction found no blood on the driver’s side seat, floor, gear shift, steering wheel or door handle, nor on the boat and trailer that Hudson tried to reattach to his truck before the chase.
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http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/440993
Doesn't surprise me but still sick.
CSI forum.
Dee Hall has run about 10 or 20 of these types of stories over the past 8 years, she's been proven right every time.
A crooked cop or politician's worst nightmare is to see see a Dee Hall story on the front page of the Sunday Wisconsin State Journal.
Here is a followup from yesterday's article:
Prosecutors may have to reveal info that could affect past convictions
By DEE J. HALL
http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/441058
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