Mikaela Stiner Mikaela Stiner

Liberty Faculty Members Head Innocence Project to Exonerate the Wrongly Convicted

Jens Soering, a German-born University of Virginia student convicted in 1990 of murdering his girlfriend’s parents, is closer to being exonerated than ever before, thanks to the forensic investigation of a Liberty University professor.

Dr. J. Thomas McClintock, Liberty’s director of forensic science and professor of biology, has been working on the forensic DNA analysis on new evidentiary samples of the Soering case since last summer. McClintock is also working with Liberty’s law school and the Criminal Justice Program to develop an Innocence Project, opening 2019 or 2020, which will seek to exonerate others believed to have been wrongly convicted.

McClintock said that the goal of the Innocence Project is to work on a variety of cases like the Soering case, where the sentence and the interpretation of the evidence is in question and exoneration is worth pursuing.

“The Innocence Project attempts to look at cases that have been unresolved … maybe some new evidence out there has been found that can be analyzed,” McClintock said. “It’s also for those who have been wrongfully convicted. Of course, you can literally ask everyone who is incarcerated, and they’ll say they’re innocent, but there really are many that are incarcerated wrongfully. ”

Derek and Nancy Haysom were murdered in their Bedford County home March 30, 1985…

Read the rest of my article in the Liberty Champion here.

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