Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed a special counsel to look into the 1985 murder conviction of Kevin Cooper. On Friday, the investigators released a report saying the evidence of Cooper's guilt was conclusive
and a social worker that his attackers were three white men, but he later said that they were Latino. A month after that, he told a deputy that Cooper, who is Black, was not the killer.
Genetic testing showed that Cooper’s DNA was found inside the Ryen home, as well as on cigarette butts recovered from a station wagon stolen from the family’s home after the slayings, according to the 243-page report. There wasn’t any DNA evidence, the report said, that “points to any other person as the culprit.”
Several months after the article was published, Cooper’s proclamations of innocence continued to gain traction, includingIn March 2021, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fundurging him to launch an investigation, noting that exonerations are disproportionately likely to result from cases involving Black defendants and white victims.
Two months later, Newsom appointed the international law firm of Morrison Foerster to serve as special counsel to the state Board of Parole Hearings, which is responsible for investigating clemency matters.
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