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Ray Milton Krone graduated in the top ten percent of his high school class and went on to became a sergeant in the United States Air Force. After an honorable discharge, he took a job in Arizona with the United States Postal Service, living a normal, middle-class life. But, in 1991, his life changed. A witness to the murder of bartender Kim Ancona told police that someone named "Ray" was supposed to help Ancona close the bar. Krone had socialized with Ancona in the past and was considered a regular customer at the bar. He immediately became a suspect. At trial, Krone was convicted primarily on this testimony, in addition to that of a bite-mark expert who testified that Krone's bite matched the bite-mark found on the victim.
The Arizona Supreme Court reversed this conviction in 1995 because the prosecution had waited until one day before trial to turn over a crucial video made by their bite-mark expert. Krone was again convicted, however, despite presenting ten DNA and bite-mark experts who testified that he could not have committed the crime. But in 2000, his attorney persuaded a judge to compare DNA samples from the victim's body with those in a database of people convicted of serious crimes. The DNA found on Ancona matched that of a convicted -- and already imprisoned -- sex offender who had lived 600 ...
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41 American Criminal Law Review 157 (2004)