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Criminal

Apr. 11, 2001

DNA Reality

SACRAMENTO - For more than 15 years convicted hatchet murderer Kevin Cooper has insisted he is innocent, and lately he has asked for DNA tests to prove it.

By Hudson Sangree
Daily Journal Staff Writer

        SACRAMENTO - For more than 15 years convicted hatchet murderer Kevin Cooper has insisted he is innocent, and lately he has asked for DNA tests to prove it.
        Now the death row inmate - found guilty in 1985 of hacking and slashing to death a mother, father and two young children - will get his wish...

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