Richard Valdez & Sharon Condon Murder Cases
DNA tests could bring new trial in double murder
Original Post Date: 5th Oct, 2010 - 1:03am
I am really grateful for the technology we have now days that can allow people to have a chance in life and set free if they are innocent.
A man who has served 21 years in a Nebraska prison for the 1988 murders of a man and his pregnant girlfriend now argues that DNA indicates the killings were actually committed by a Colorado man. DNA tests confirm that blood found on the kicked-in door to the Scottsbluff, Neb., home where Richard Valdez, 25, and his pregnant girlfriend, Sharon Condon, 19, were found shot to death did not belong to Jeff Boppre, who was convicted in March 1989 of killing them. Instead, a match was made last year to John Yellowboy, Condon's cousin, who is serving a 66-year rape and kidnapping sentence in the Limon Correctional Facility. Boppre's attorneys are seeking to quash his conviction or seek another trial, believing that if one was held, Boppre, 44, would be acquitted, said James Mowbray of the Nebraska Commission of Public Advocacy. But while the new DNA does raise a question about whether Yellowboy was present at the murder scene, it does nothing to eliminate Boppre as part of the murder plot, prosecutors have argued…
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