How Ted Bradford And Jeramie Davis Overturned My Dna Evidence

Ted Bradford and Jeramie Davis are two men out of many that have had their cases overturned my DNA evidence.

Ted Bradford served 14 years on a rape charge of a woman in her home with her baby. Bradford's case was the first case in Washington to be overturned by DNA evidence (Bristol). The case was overturned when a University Professor in Seattle, Washington, Jackie McMurtrie, tested the DNA found by the detectives from the Yakima County. This shows that there was a possibility that Bradford did not commit the crime. Yakima County prosecutors were praised by McMurtrie for agreeing to the testing of the DNA found on the mask left at the crime scene before the new law passed in 2005, preservation of DNA (Bristol). After a fact-finding hearing

Jeramie Davis served 5 years for the murder of an adult bookstore owner. Davis had been recently transferred from the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, serving a 40 year sentence for the beating and robbery of a bookstore owner, to the Spokane County Jail. Davis had told the police he was an innocent witness who went to Best Buy Adult Books and found the owner (Allen) dead on the floor. Police say that Davis waited about four hours before calling 911 for help. That Monday Davis was questioned and then released to be only brought back a few days later as the main suspect after two detectives (Tim Madsen and John Miller) kept investigating and found a witness who had information on the crime they didn't realize would be useful till then. This shows that they only ever looked at Davis as the perpetrator, not looking at any other suspect. As they looked more into Davis they found that the Washington court records had a criminal record on Davis for a driving offense and a conviction involving a scam. The only violence he had on his record was a violation of a restraining order. During the investigation the bat that was used to brutally beat the bookstore owner had DNA on it. When they tested the DNA it matched to a Julio J. Davila after his DNA was ran through the system for a different case. This shows that there is more than one suspect for the crime and they should have

He denied knowing Allen or Davis and said he was confused on how his DNA ended up on the bat. Spokane detectives spoke to an informant who said they saw more than a dozen brand new pronographic videos that Davila was trading for drugs (Bannach). This shows that a witness saw Davila recently at the bookstore Allen owned near the time of the incident. As they looked more into Davila they found that he has a record dating back to 1992. Davilas record consisted of disorderly conduct in Los Angeles, domestic violence convictions in Kootenai, Santa Clara, and Spokane Counties. Davila was also convicted of a 2nd degree domestic violence burglary and 3rd degree assault in 2008. This shows that he would be capable to commit the murder and robbery of the bookstore owner. Connecting Davila to the case was done by the fact his DNA was already in the system that led them to match the DNA left on the bat. In order to be fully sure of the match, they got a second sample of DNA from Davila on June 27 confirming the match (Bannach). This shows that Davis was not the man who committed the crime. He was arrested in January for the murder while he was under the supervision of the Department of Corrections for a methamphetamine