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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (207626)	6/19/2009 11:16:01 PM
From: bruiser98	Respond to of 306849

Still more here. courthousenews.com <<< The ruling denies further DNA testing to convicted rapist William G. Osborne, who insisted he had a constitutional right to use the latest technology to try to clear his name. He was identified as one of the perpetrators of the kidnapping and sexual assault of a prostitute 16 years ago. According to the victim, two men picked her up while driving through Anchorage, Alaska. When she demanded payment in advance, the men pulled out a gun and forced her to perform oral sex on the driver while the passenger raped her. They then ordered her out of the car, made her lie face-down in the snow, choked her and beat her with the gun. When she tried to flee, the passenger beat her with a wooden axe handle and shot her in the head. The bullet only grazed her head, and she was able to flag down a passing car once the two men left. Police later discovered evidence of the crime in Dexter Jackson's car during a routine traffic stop. Jackson admitted that he had been the driver during the rape and assault, and told police that William Osborne was the passenger. Crime-scene evidence and witness accounts corroborated this claim. An Alaska jury convicted Osborne and Jackson of kidnapping, assault and sexual assault, but acquitted them of an additional count of sexual assault and attempted murder. Osborne was sentenced to 26 years in prison, with five years suspended. On appeal, he demanded a more precise DNA test than the "DQ Alpha" test used to analyze the semen on a condom used during the assault. That test served to eliminate Jackson and a third suspect as possible sources of the semen, but could not narrow the perpetrator to less than 5 percent of the population. Osborne accused his attorney, Sidney Billingslea, of ineffective counsel when she refused to demand further testing. Billingslea explained that she believed Osborne was guilty and thought more testing "would have served to prove that Osborne committed the alleged crimes.">>>