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Man gets new trial after discredited bite-mark testimony

by Associated Press
| August 27, 2020 4:06 PM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a man on death row deserves a new trial in a 1992 killing because his conviction was based partially on a dentist's bite-mark testimony that has been discredited.

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