murder charge against 75-year-old Jane Dorotik was dismissed this week as she was getting ready for a second trial.
Dorotik was originally convicted of murdering her husband, Robert, back in 2001. He was found bludgeoned and strangled a year earlier near their Valley Center home.
In 2020, a judge overturned that original conviction after new evidence came to light, however, shortly after that a new jury trial was granted. A lengthy preliminary hearing found enough evidence to move forward. The San Diego County District Attorney’s office issued the following statement in response to the dismissal of the case:
“He was obviously the victim of a violent assault. So we just started looking very, very closely at the forensic evidence that was presented against her at trial, and it was just incredible how poorly it was done, how poorly it was documented, how the crime scene examiners weren’t wearing drugs, they weren’t even competent to be doing that type of work,” said Mitchell. “The more we dug, the more we found.
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