Re: Will new forensics evidence get Julie Amero a new trial?

["Matthew Murphy" <mattmurphy () kc rr com>]

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hcu-amerotrial-0606,0,4739321.story?coll=hc-headlines-home

NEW LONDON -- A Superior Court judge Wednesday granted a new trial for Julie
Amero, 40, a Norwich substitute teacher whose faulty computer spewed
pornographic images in her seventh grade classroom.

...

The judge cited a forensic computer analysis conducted by the state police
crime lab - conducted after the guilty verdict - to support the argument
that the verdict should be set aside. She said the lab report "contradicts
testimony of the state's computer witness."

At Amero's trial, the state maintained that Amero failed to act to prevent
her students from glimpsing at images of the pornography. Assistant State's
Attorney David Smith argued then that the evidence was "clear cut" that
Amero was at fault because she caused the pornography to appear on the
computer.

But today, Smith said state would take no position on Dow's motion for a new
trial, making it unlikely she will be tried again. Smith also acknowledged
that erroneous information about the computer was presented during trial.

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