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Criminal

Aug. 6, 2010

Video Game Fingerprints Save Suspect

A San Francisco Superior Court Judge dropped felony burglary charges against a teen mid-trial Wednesday after his attorney, a deputy public defender, was able to prove that key fingerprint evidence against him was not ironclad.

By Amy Yarbrough

Daily Journal Staff Writer

A San Francisco Superior Court Judge dropped felony burglary charges against a teen mid-trial Wednesday after his attorney, a deputy public defender, was able to prove that key fingerprint evidence against him was not ironclad.

Dayshon Hunter, 18, had been in jail since April 23 for Oct. 30 residential burglary. Key to the prosecution's case was Hunter's fingerprint found on a...

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