An independent retest of DNA evidence used to arrest and convict Michael Clark for a murder he says he did not commit now appears to exclude him, throwing into doubt the entire case, according to a new court document filed Monday.
The new revelation contradicts key testimony made by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s former star forensic scientist Yvonne Woods at Clark’s 2012 trial, which helped lead to his conviction.
At his trial, Woods, who goes by Missy, said that Michael Clark’s DNA matched genetic material she analyzed from inside a jar of Carmex lip balm that had been recovered at the scene of an unsolved 1994 murder…