Consumer Law
Hawaii Promised Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted—Still, No Payouts

After insisting for nearly two decades that he was innocent of a sexual assault at knifepoint on Maui, Alvin Jardine got a judge to let him try to prove it. His lawyers sent a green and white checkered tablecloth found at the crime scene to a lab to test it for DNA.
When police had investigated the crime in 1990, DNA testing of bloodstains and other bodily fluids on the tablecloth was inconclusive. But by 2008, technology had advanced, and the new analysis showed that the DNA wasn’t Jardine’s.
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