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DEAN v. STATE

Nos. S-12-974, S-12-975.

849 N.W.2d 138 (2014)

288 Neb. 530

James DEAN, appellee and cross-appellant, v. STATE of Nebraska, appellant and cross-appellee. Ada JoAnn Taylor, appellee, v. State of Nebraska, appellant.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

Filed July 18, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Bruning , Attorney General, and James D. Smith for appellant.

Herbert J. Friedman , of Friedman Law Offices, P.C., L.L.O., for appellee James Dean.

Jeffry D. Patterson and Robert F. Bartle , of Bartle & Geier Law Firm, and Douglas Stratton , of Stratton, DeLay & Doele, for appellee Ada JoAnn Taylor.

Heavican, C.J., Wright, Connolly, Stephan, McCormack, Miller-Lerman, and Cassel, JJ.

Stephan, J.

Following their pleas of guilty, James Dean and Ada JoAnn Taylor were convicted of second degree murder in connection with the 1985 death of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska. Both gave incriminating testimony at the trial of Joseph White who was convicted of first degree murder in connection with Wilson's death. But years later, DNA tests determined that neither Dean, Taylor, White, nor any of the other three...

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