California Court of Appeal

In a petition for writ of habeas corpus relief from a conviction of murder, the petition is granted, where under the 2014 legislative revision of section 1473, which expanded the definition of 'false evidence' to include opinions of experts that have either been repudiated by the expert who originally provided the opinion at a hearing or trial or that have been undermined by later scientific research or technological advances, the conviction should be overturned because the prosecution's dental expert recanted his expert opinion testimony at trial that a lesion on the victim's hand was a human bite mark matching petitioner's unusual teeth.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/05/26

Judges

• CANTIL-SAKUYE

Court

• California Court of Appeal

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