Death Row Inmate Challenges Evidence in New Trial Bid

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for a Mississippi death row inmate argue the bite mark evidence that was key to Eddie Lee Howard’s conviction has been roundly discredited.

Howard is seeking a new trial for his conviction on raping and killing a Lowndes County woman in 1992.

Attorney Tucker Carrington with the Mississippi Innocence Project argued to the state Supreme Court Tuesday that evidence discovered since 2009 has rejected the methodology and conclusions that a forensic dentist, Dr. Michael West, presented during testimony in Howard’s trial.

Prosecutors argue justices have already rejected Howard’s challenge to bite-mark evidence.

Howard, now 61, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2000 in the slaying of 82-year-old Georgia Kemp of Columbus. Evidence against him included bite marks on her body. West testified they matched impressions of Howard’s teeth.

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