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State defense team takes over murder suspect’s case
by Sally Maxwell, Managing Editor
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The legal proceedings against Leon Markel Winston Jr., 41, a suspect in the murder of Darla Lovern Caughman on Sept. 27, will continue in Sequoyah County District Court, Sallisaw, and Winston’s def...


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Members of Sallisaw 4-H Club will deliver 38 Thanksgiving food boxes to area families Friday. This is the seventh year the club has delivered food boxes. Central, Brushy, and Liberty and Eastside Elementary Schools in Sallisaw also held food drives. 4-H Club Leader Kenneth Holmes, left, County Commissioner District 1 Mike Huff, middle, and Rita Holmes start filling boxes with food at the Sequoyah County Fair Building Monday. “The boxes will contain enough food for a week,” Holmes said. Linda Copeland • Times
Members of Sallisaw 4-H Club will deliver 38 Thanksgiving food boxes to area families Friday. This is the seventh year the club has delivered food boxes. Central, Brushy, and Liberty and Eastside Elementary Schools in Sallisaw also held food drives. 4-H Club Leader Kenneth Holmes, left, County Commissioner District 1 Mike Huff, middle, and Rita Holmes start filling boxes with food at the Sequoyah County Fair Building Monday. “The boxes will contain enough food for a week,” Holmes said. Linda Copeland • Times
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« JohnLloydScharf wrote on Friday, Nov 21 at 04:28 PM »
If Winston is being left to some generic state indigent lawyer where DNA testing is involved, he will likely not be properly represented.

Whenever I find that DNA testing is being done, I want to know:

What were the DNA tests that were run?

In the CODIS database of Maryland, of fewer than 30,000 profiles, 32 pairs matched at nine or more

loci. Three of those pairs were “perfect” matches, identical at 13 out of 13 loci. Experts say they most

likely are duplicates or belong to identical twins or brothers, but they did not establish that.

A study of the Arizona CODIS database carried out in 2005 showed that approximately 1 in every 228

profiles in the database matched another profile in the database at nine or more loci, that approximately

1 in every 1,489 profiles matched at 10 loci, 1 in 16,374 profiles matched at 11 loci, and 1 in 32,747

matched at 12 loci.

In a recent case against a Murillo-Sosa, a jury was told the match was 5 of 13. They had to say he was not

guilty. SO, what kind of match DID THEY MAKE?

How about doing it right the first time and take the time to get a FULL DNA testing of Y chromosome

DNA and mitochondrial DNA, as well as autosomal (CODIS) DNA?

Is it a mitochondrial DNA test which matches everyone who descended from the same maternal

ancestor in the last 20 generations as THE DEFENDENT(S)? Is it just a "high resolution test" which the

FBI performs or a real full genome sequencing of the mitochondrial DNA?

Is it a Y Chromosome test which matches everyone who has the same paternal lineage for the past 400

years? If so, is it 12 markers, which could be one to fifty percent of the population, or is it a 67 marker

test that can pin it down to a surname?

There may be a way to combine all of these that will resolve the identity to one person, but is what they

have beyond a reasonable doubt unless they do FULL testing?

« diamondgurl wrote on Wednesday, Nov 19 at 12:27 PM »
GO DIAMONDS! WE CAN WIN IT ALL THIS YEAR! WE ARE BEHIND YOU!

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