USA Today had a version of this story last month (12/22/05).

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Posted by the Political Noise on 6 January 2006 @ 12pm

The facts of the case clearly pointed to Coleman as the culprit. The blood type and semen type matched Coleman’s type (shared by just 2/10th of one percent of the population), as determined by his own expert Dr. Ed Blake. The defense team tried to pin the blame for the rape and murder on a neighbor of victim Wanda McCoy.

Much to their dismay, said neighbor produced medical records showing he had a blood type OTHER than what was found at the scene. Said neighbor sued the defense lawyers for libel and they settled out of court in 1994.

The right man was arrested, convicted and executed for this crime. The continuing “question of innocence” only exists due to a miasma of misrepresentations by his supporters.

Posted by VA Justice on 7 January 2006 @ 2am

Well, good — then the DNA testing will confirm his guilt, and we can rest assured that a terrible mistake was not made.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 7 January 2006 @ 11am

The guy looks pretty guilty to me. But I can’t understand why anyone would ever be opposed to more DNA testing.

Posted by ATA on 9 January 2006 @ 10am

I agree with VA Justice. And Waldo. And ATA. Does that make me schizophrenic?

Posted by I'm Not Emeril on 9 January 2006 @ 10pm