A judge late Thursday, July 16, ordered a $250,000 security bond that allows for the release of a 61-year-old murder defendant who had a 1991 conviction tossed out because of discredited bite-mark evidence.
Robert Wallace Lyons will be free from custody for the first time since his 1989 arrest in connection with the death of 24-year-old Lori Stabenow, found lifeless in a downtown Eugene motel where both she and Lyons had been staying.
Lane County jurors in 1990 heard testimony about bite marks on Stabenow’s body matching the bite of Lyons, a type of analysis now listed among “discredited forensic science disciplines” under a state law that took effect this year and directly led to Lyons having his 1991 conviction vacated…