As washing machines go, the one that contributed to Roy Verret's capital murder charge was pretty average. White, Whirlpool, reliable. When detectives investigating a murder in Jeanerette, Louisiana, swabbed a dark spot on the lid in January 2017, he thought they were wasting their time."I wasn
As washing machines go, the one that contributed to Roy Verret’s capital murder charge was pretty average. White, Whirlpool, reliable. When detectives investigating a murder in Jeanerette, Louisiana, swabbed a dark spot on the lid in January 2017, he thought they were wasting their time.But on April 19, 2017, detectives from the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested Verret.
This may sound like an easy catch. But proving what had happened took much longer than it should have because the crime lab was slow to turn over the documentation to the defense, said Steve Singer, a longtime public defender who took on Verret’s case. Such a wait is not unusual, he said. The woman, Michele King, who acknowledged she sometimes also had sex with Poche for drug money, initially said he had cut himself while getting out of the shower. She later confessed to witnessing his murder and said that the killers had threatened to kill her, too, if she didn’t clean up. She denied that her longtime boyfriend, Verret, was involved.
Several subpoenas of the lab failed to produce the missing material. He did not get the full report until January, three years after the knife was tested, he said. In many jurisdictions, the prosecution is not even required to tell the defense that DNA evidence exists, Murphy said. This means that innocent people regularly take plea deals for rape and other violent offenses without ever learning that the police collected DNA evidence that points to a different suspect, she said.
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