After learning of the results, Patricia Young, Lee’s sister, issued the following statement via the Innocence Project: “We are glad there is new evidence.
In the national DNA database and remain hopeful that there will be further information uncovered in the future.” “We request privacy for our family during this trying time,”
She continued. Although Lee’s lawyers attempted to get them throughout the appeals process, the DNA testing was completed subsequent to his conviction. In the end, the effort was rejected.
Short said, “The judge’s reasoning was that it wouldn’t matter, that three people saw him at or near that neighborhood on that day and time, and honestly, the DNA wouldn’t matter.”
Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas, said that the jury judged him guilty based on the facts they had and that the evidence was “inconclusive.”
