Florida man sues investigators who sent him 37 years to prison with bogus evidence

Tampa Police, Florida, received a complaint against ex-officers and the forensic dentist who accused – with fraudulent examinations – the US citizen Robert DuBoise, who was in jail for more than 37 years for an alleged homicide, reported the AP agency.

Robert DuBoise, who was released in August 2020, filed a complaint with a US federal court to accuse three former detectives, a former sergeant and a forensic dentist of fabricating evidence against him to be indicted for the murder and rape of Barbara Grams in 1983.

During the investigations, the investigators noticed a wound on the woman’s cheek, which they mistook for an injury left by the attacker when biting her, for which they took dental molds of the suspects made of beeswax, a material not authorized to carry out this type of examination. procedures.

Richard Souviron, a defendant dentist, certified in the analyzes that the bite of Robert duboise matched those found on the victim.

“The only physical evidence that implicated him was fabricated evidence that allegedly associated DuBoise with an injury to the victim’s body. In fact, the victim’s injury was not a human bite mark at all. “said Daniel Marshall, attorney for the prosecuting party.

The judicial appeal filed by the defense of DuBoise He explains that the investigators carried out an illegal maneuver that violated their principles to incriminate the citizen and, furthermore, that they conspired with prison informants to implicate the alleged attacker.

A case that generates outrage

At 18 years old, Robert duboise he was arrested and sentenced to capital punishment until in 1988 his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. However, in 2020 he managed to be exonerated by the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office’s Conviction Review Unit after finding unanalyzed DNA samples from a rape kit in the case.

The materials did not match the genetic package of the convict, who is 56 years old.

The objective of the affected person is to be compensated with 1.85 million dollars for the damages generated during the time that he lived in prison unjustly, but the approval of the Florida Legislative to receive your compensation.

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