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Bad dental impression9/5/2023 In that role, he has become one of forensic science’s most piercing critics. He is an authority on the perils and limitations of science as it has been applied to criminal justice. Photograph: Courtesy of the McCrory familyįabricant is director of strategic litigation at the Innocence Project, the formidable New York-based non-profit that for 30 years has used DNA evidence to overturn hundreds of wrongful convictions. McCrory shared his recollections of that critical instant in a handwritten letter he sent to the Guardian earlier this month.Ĭharles McCrory with his wife, Julie Bonds, and their son Chad. You could see it in the eyes of the jurors.” “I knew it was extremely damaging to our case. “I was in disbelief at his testimony being so different,” he recalled. McCrory remembers vividly the sinking feeling he experienced in that moment, given the glaring contrast between Souviron’s initial report and what he was now saying in court. Then the prosecutor asked him: “In your expert opinion, based on the evidence presented to you, were these teeth marks made by Charles McCrory?” When Souviron was asked whether the two marks were teeth marks, he said: “Yes.” In his initial report, the dentist had been cautious about what could be deduced from two puncture marks found on the upper right arm of Julie’s body, saying that the injuries were insufficiently distinct to allow a positive match with the perpetrator. McCrory was expecting Souviron’s evidence to be nuanced.
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