The state has searched hard enough to conclude that DNA evidence from a 30-year-old rape no longer exists, the Court of Appeals held Tuesday. George E. Blake, whose request for DNA testing from the 1981 assault led to a groundbreaking ...

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Lawyers for two Mexican immigrants serving life sentences for the triple murder of their young relatives asked the state’s highest court on Tuesday to grant them another trial, their third. Policarpio Espinoza Perez and Adan Espinoza Canela say the second ...

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