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DNA DOES NOT MATCH
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Me or my co-defendent, relating to a white ski-mask abandoned in the get-away-car during a 1996 bank robbery. The mask was sent to the FBI laboratory before my trial and the results that exclude both defendants were NOT disclosed by the government until after my trial was over, and without those results there is no way possible to prepare a defense for such serious charges or receive a fair trial.
There is no money, no eye-witness, or any evidence of any kind that directly links me to any robbery anywhere! The government's witness was led to believe that he would receive full immunity in exchange for his agreement to test-a-lie testify. After the trial was over and just a few days before sentencing the DNA results were disclosed and my Court-Appointed Counsel filed a motion to set aside the jury's verdict based on newly discovered evidence and this motion was denied by the court, which ruled that the DNA results would not have changed the out-come of the trial even in a case that's 100% circumstantial! See Kyles V. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419, which says that the DNA evidence doesn't have to change a jury's verdict to be considered material and a violation of the Brady/Bagley standards, but Kyles states that the real question is whether or not in the absence of such evidence did the defendant receive a fair trail?
If you believe that I did not receive a fair trial, then I need your help to organize a petition for a pardon/commutation of sentence. This case is Federal and can be viewed on-line at U.S. District Courts, N.D. of Alabama, case # 97-H-0159-E.
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Reginald Woods
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