David Wayne Kunze

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Charge:	Murder and Robbery
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole
Years Imprisoned:	4
Year Crime:	1994
Year Convicted:	1997
Year Cleared:	2001
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Washington
County or Region of Crime:	Clark
City of Crime:	Vancouver
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"David Wayne Kunze was wrongly convicted of murdering his ex-wife's fiancée. Convicted solely on the basis of an alleged "earprint" left on a door in the murder victim's house. In 1999 the WA Court of Appeals reversed his conviction because of the unreliability of "earprint" testimony. Released on $500,000 bail in Aug 2000, Kunze's second trial ended in a mistrial, and prosecutors declined to retry him a third time because of a lack of evidence he committed the crime."
Conviction Caused By:	"Junk science "earprint" testimony"
Innocence Proved By:	Conviction reversed by the WA Court of Appeals in 1999. Second trial ended in a mistrial. Prosecutors declined to retry a third time because of a lack of evidence.
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Age When Imprisoned:	46
Age When Released:	51
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"State v Kunze, 97 Wash.App. 832, 988 P.2d 977 (1999) "
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Information Source 2:	"Charged Dropped in Earprint Case, AP News, 03-23-2001"
Information Location 2:	http://www.truthinjustice.org/mccann.htm
Information Source 3:	"Ear-print murder conviction overturned, AP Wire Story, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 19, 1999"
Information Location 3:	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/ears19.shtml?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=1591
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David Wayne Kunze

Charge:

Murder and Robbery

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole

Years Imprisoned:

4

Year Crime:

1994

Year Convicted:

1997

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Washington

County or Region of Crime:

Clark

City of Crime:

Vancouver

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Junk science "earprint" testimony"

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction reversed by the WA Court of Appeals in 1999. Second trial ended in a mistrial. Prosecutors declined to retry a third time because of a lack of evidence.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

46

Age When Released:

51

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"State v Kunze, 97 Wash.App. 832, 988 P.2d 977 (1999) "

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Information Source 2:

"Charged Dropped in Earprint Case, AP News, 03-23-2001"

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http://www.truthinjustice.org/mccann.htm

Information Source 3:

"Ear-print murder conviction overturned, AP Wire Story, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 19, 1999"

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/ears19.shtml?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=1591

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