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Criminal

Oct. 8, 2002

Convicted Killer Claims DNA Test Was Tainted

SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for Kevin Cooper, a death-row inmate recently pegged by DNA results in the brutal killings of a family nearly 20 years ago, continue to assert their client's innocence, arguing that evidence submitted for testing could have been tainted.

By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for Kevin Cooper, a death-row inmate recently pegged by DNA results in the brutal killings of a family nearly 20 years ago, continue to assert their client's innocence, arguing that evidence submitted for testing could have been tainted.
        Cooper, who was conv...

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