MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Regardless of the results of DNA testing in a cold murder case, prosecutors should be prohibited from using it, a lawyer for the defendant argues.
Richard Shields, who represents Anthony Lorenzo Hayes, submitted written arguments this week. He cited admissions by the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office that it had “lost control” of five pieces of denim from a pair of blue jeans. The samples since have been located, and the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences has indicated that testing should be completed by September.
Regardless of the results of that testing, Shields told FOX10 News, the broken “chain of custody” means prosecutors cannot prove the samples are valid and were not contaminated…