Prison for a crime he didnt commit, Keith Harwood finally walked into the Sun Light a free man. Did you ever think youd see this day . No, i didnt. More than seven years later harwood now lives a quiet life in rural north carolina. Its always a great day to be out of prison. But not entirely quiet. Hes trying to get the word out about the Junk Science that he says wrongly put him and many others behind bars. Bogus Bite Mark comparisons. What do you want the public to know about Bite Mark evidence specifically . That its garbage. Its crap. You cant believe it. It doesnt mean anything. Harwood was convicted in 1983 of raping a woman and murdering her husband. A socalled Forensic Dentist who had helped convict a notorious Serial Killer told the jury the teeth matched Bite Marks on the womans leg. He got up there with his 4 x 6 photographs of my mouth and he said i
Of law should not allow it in. Period. Bite Mark Analysis has been used in thousands of cases and no u. S. Court has ruled it inadmissible. There are still many people still in jails because of bite mark testimony. Charles mccrory has been incarcerated for 38 years, convicted of murdering his wife based on bite mark evidence. He spoke to us from a prison facility. Mr. Mccrory, did you kill your wife . I did not kill my wife. After the original Dental Expert recanted his testimony, prosecutors offered him a deal. Admit to killing his wife and go free. You refused to take it, why . I refused to take it because i didnt kill her. The Innocence Project is still fighting to clear his name. My faith is strong, and i believe god is in control. Charles mccrory has appeals pending in federal court. The Innocence Project says 30 people convicted of Bite Marks have been exonerated. Kate
been just that, it would ve been a big news story. but beyond that, the vice chair of the committee for that republican congresswoman liz cheney, made news in her remarks. as i said, mr. meadows did turn over thousands of pages of documents into the investigation already before he decided he was going to stop complying with their requests. the documents he handed over included lots of text messages. both sent by mr. meadows and received by mr. meadows. what congresswoman liz cheney did tonight was read out love some of the text messages that mark meadows, trump white house chief of staff received while the u.s. capital was under attack on january six. these are techs she said mark evidence that the white house knew exactly what was going on in realtime at the u.s. capitol on the six. listen to this, this is pretty stunning stuff. this vote on contempt today,
reopen the case and allow him access to the dna and physical evidence collected at the crime scene. because the bite mark video was presented to the defense only one day before krone s trial, the court agrees to reopen the case and grants krone a new trial. the phoenix police department now must provide plourd with all the evidence from the crime scene. the amount is significant. basically the dam broke, and i got access to everything. he very quickly found out it wasn t just the bite mark evidence in the case and that it was much other evidence, and none of it really fit ray. i mean they had fingerprints of the crime scene. none of them matched. they had footprints at the crime scene, did not match ray. there were several bloodstains on her underwear and there were several bloodstains on her pants. nobody ever looked at that before the trial. they just all assumed that it was the victim s blood. plourd submits the bloodstains for dna testing. the results come back.
must be supported by other forensic evidence. i became convinced that what happened is that this expert came into court and basically misrepresented the science of bite mark to the jury and wrongfully convicted ray krone. plourd files a request with the arizona supreme court to reopen the case and allow him access to the dna and physical evidence collected at the crime scene. because the bite mark video was presented to the defense only one day before krone s trial, the court agrees to reopen the case and grants krone a new trial. the phoenix police department now must provide plourd with all the evidence from the crime scene. the amount is significant. basically, the dam broke and i got access to everything. he very quickly found out it wasn t just the bite mark evidence in the case and that it was much other evidence, and none of it really fit ray. i mean, they had fingerprints of the crime scene.