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The Murder of Karyn Hearn Slover

I tend to look a little more closely at a case when I see that cases are being looked into by those involved in the Innocence Project. Many states have their own chapters of this committee I suppose you would call it, and Illinois is one of them. That being said, while I look a little deeper and may take what they say a little more serious than some, I do not always agree that they have taken on a case that does truly involve innocent people. To be fair I am a bit on the fence on this case but I admit that I lean towards the fact that the prosecution got it right despite there being little forensic evidence. While the defense has argued over the years to have more modern testing allowed on the evidence the courts have denied most of these efforts. In 2014 the defense was granted the right to have some specific items DNA tested but for the most part, at least in my opinion, I am unsure that it will make a difference. On September 27, 1996 twenty-three year old Karyn H...