New York 2nd Degree Murder, Post Conviction DNA Testing

Shaliq Peterson, convicted of 2nd Degree Murder in New York in 1995, is  petitioning the Supreme Court in that state to have his conviction overturned.  DNA from the case does not match Peterson, or anyone else in CODIS. 

There existed at trial a significant body of forensic DNA containing evidence, including a smudged fingerprint on the murder weapon. Attorney Pascazi hopes to show that the smudged print does not match the DNA profile of either Shaliq or the victim, but does indeed match the profile of one of the nearly 10 million people, (virtually all convicted criminals) whose DNA profiles are now stored in the FBI's CODIS-NDIS database.
  
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