“A key piece of evidence used to convict (the) defendant was found to not contain his DNA, but to instead contain the DNA of other individuals,” it said.
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The investigation — which also included interviewing witnesses and re-creating the Coley case file from documents retained by his family and other sources — led Totten to believe “the evidence, as we now know it, would meet the legal standard for a finding of factual innocence.”
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