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Innocence Project chief to lead study
JACKSON (AP) — The director of the Mississippi Innocence Project has been chosen to lead a legislative task force that will study better methods for collecting and preserving DNA evidence.
The committee named Tucker Carrington its chairman on Monday during its first meeting.
"I'll do it with my best effort not to push my agenda. You're going to have to trust me on that," said Carrington, a professor and full-time director of the Mississippi Innocence Project located at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Carrington's group is a chapter of the New York-based Innocence Project that works on behalf of inmates believed to be wrongly convicted. The New York organization's intervention in a pair of Mississippi cases helped exonerate two Noxubee County men earlier this year.
Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks were cleared in separate murder cases involving two toddler girls because of DNA evidence and an alleged confession by a third man.
The committee named Tucker Carrington its chairman on Monday during its first meeting.
"I'll do it with my best effort not to push my agenda. You're going to have to trust me on that," said Carrington, a professor and full-time director of the Mississippi Innocence Project located at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Carrington's group is a chapter of the New York-based Innocence Project that works on behalf of inmates believed to be wrongly convicted. The New York organization's intervention in a pair of Mississippi cases helped exonerate two Noxubee County men earlier this year.
Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks were cleared in separate murder cases involving two toddler girls because of DNA evidence and an alleged confession by a third man.
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