For the first time, the federal government has weighed in on the validity of bite mark evidence, a tool critics claim prosecutors have used to incarcerate innocent people for decades. A Georgia man on death row for more than 40 years could get a new trial because of a change in scientific understanding of bitemark analysis. Not everyone agrees he deserves it.
- Judy Carnes remembers making the call like it was yesterday. She was trying to reach her mother on May 22, 1980, but a police officer picked up the phone instead.The officer was talking about 75-year-old Grace Perry, found dead inside her Rome, Georgia home. Carnes’ mother, Edith Polston, lived at the same house. The two were cousins, but Carnes said Perry was more like a mother to Polston.
During the investigation into Perry’s death, detectives noticed an injury on Rogers’ forearm they believed looked like a bitemark. “I no longer believe — as I testified at Mr. Rogers’s trial — that Grace Perry’s teeth, to the exclusion of all others, inflicted the injury on Mr. Rogers forearm,” said Souviron in a 2020 affidavit.
This past October, the federal government weighed-in on bitemark evidence for the first time. After a multi-year study, thecritical of the reliability of bitemark analysis. “I was mad because I missed almost 17 years of my life locked up without my family,” said Denton in an interview with InvestigateTV this past summer.
Dr. Adam Freeman, a former president of The American Board of Forensic Odontology who left because of concerns over the reliability of the science. “I drank that Kool-Aid. I wanted to become board certified. That was going to be like the pinnacle of my career,” Freeman said. “And at the end of today, it’s just smoke and mirrors.”
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