Commentary: DNA tests could reveal if Kevin Cooper was wrongly convicted of murder. Why didn't Jerry Brown order them?
by Narda Zacchino, Los Angeles Times
Feb 01, 2019
4 minutes
On Christmas Eve, shortly before the end of his final term as California's governor, Jerry Brown ordered new DNA testing in a case that has been cited repeatedly as a possible miscarriage of justice.
But Brown inexplicably stopped short of ordering all the testing needed to settle whether Kevin Cooper was wrongly convicted for the savage 1983 murders of a Chino Hills family and a child staying at their house.
Cooper, a convicted burglar who had escaped from a nearby prison two days before the murders, was soon arrested, although the one family member who survived the attack, Joshua
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