Homicide Audit

Under a settlement agreement in a civil rights case brought by a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, the Cincinnati Police Department will conduct an audit of homicide cases in which a suspect was convicted but a DNA database identified a different individual.

CINCINNATI — Under a settlement agreement in a civil rights case brought by a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, the Cincinnati Police Department will conduct an audit of homicide cases in which a suspect was convicted but a DNA database identified a different individual.

Categories / Civil Rights, Criminal, Science

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