Man Convicted in Fatal Stabbing of 11-Year-Old Houston Boy |
Police say the jacket was found in the room at the Salvation Army shelter where Jackson had been living at the time of the killing. Surveillance video from the day of Josue's death showed Jackson wearing the jacket.
But Jerome Godinich, one of Jackson's attorneys, suggested to jurors that the amount of DNA found on the jacket was so small that it could have been transferred onto it by someone else at the shelter. Jackson's attorneys said he didn't match the physical description of the suspect seen by people who witnessed the killing and Jackson had no history of violence.
"It is a textbook example of how innocent people get convicted," said Justin Keiter, another of Jackson's attorneys.The Marine Corps veteran was first arrested weeks after Josue's killing. But prosecutors dropped the charge in 2017, saying there wasn't enough evidence to try Jackson or uphold a conviction.
He was rearrested in 2019 after prosecutors said newly tested DNA evidence connected him to the killing.A 31-year-old man with a long criminal history was charged days after the killing, but that charge was dropped when detectives found evidence to support his alibi.
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