Man released after 28-year-old murder conviction overturned

Source: AP

DALLAS (AP) — A man imprisoned for 28 years for the 1987 slayings of two people in Dallas was released Monday after his conviction based on now-discredited bite-mark analysis was overturned.

Steven Mark Chaney was sentenced to life in prison after a dentist told a Dallas County jury in 1989 there was a 1 in a million chance that someone other than Chaney made bite marks found on John Sweek's body. The dentist now says he was wrong.

State District Judge Dominique Collins overturned Chaney's conviction after receiving on a joint request from Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk, The Innocence Project and the Dallas County Public Defender's Office. Chaney, 59, will remain free while the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reviews the findings.

"I could sit and recount all the wrongs," Chaney told reporters after Monday's hearing. "The loss of my oldest stepson, my oldest grandchild two year ago, but this is a time for rejoicing and not recounting."

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