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Paul House is Being Retried for a Murder that DNA Says He Didn't Commit

By Sarah Kelley
Nashville Scene | June 27, 2008
Rather than acknowledge defeat -- never mind admitting error -- the very same prosecutor who tried House for capital murder 23 years ago announced he was going to take one more shot at convicting the ailing man for murder. But this time, he'd have to come up with a different motive, given that the theory he argued the first time -- that House killed to cover up rape -- had been shredded by the emergence of scientific evidence.
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Tags: DNA, Supreme Court, Tennessee, crime & justice, wrongfully convicted, district attorneys, Paul House, Paul Phillips

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