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Another Person Charged In Wake Of 2002 Innocence Project Exoneration
White Sulphur man to appear on 3 rape charges in 1987 case of Billings girl, 8
By JAYME FRASER and HOLLY MICHELS jayme.fraser@lee.net
Updated Dec 7, 2015
The DNA of a White Sulphur Springs man matches that from the 1987 rape of an 8-year-old Billings girl, the same case for which Jimmy Ray Bromgard wrongfully served 15 years in prison before being exonerated in 2002, according to court records.
Ronald Dwight Tipton, 55, of White Sulphur Springs, has been issued a summons to appear in Yellowstone County District Court on Dec. 14 to face three felony rape charges.
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Peter Neufeld, founder of the New York-based national Innocence Project and the attorney who represented Bromgard when he was exonerated, said the charges illustrate a larger national trend.
The only physical evidence in Bromgard’s conviction was a microscopic hair analysis, a technique that has largely been discredited and linked to hundreds of wrongful convictions nationwide. In April, the Innocence Project, U.S. Department of Justice, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the FBI issued
a joint report that at least 90 percent of trial statements by FBI experts on hair microscopy contained erroneous statements.By JAYME FRASER and HOLLY MICHELS jayme.fraser@lee.net
Updated Dec 7, 2015
The DNA of a White Sulphur Springs man matches that from the 1987 rape of an 8-year-old Billings girl, the same case for which Jimmy Ray Bromgard wrongfully served 15 years in prison before being exonerated in 2002, according to court records.
Ronald Dwight Tipton, 55, of White Sulphur Springs, has been issued a summons to appear in Yellowstone County District Court on Dec. 14 to face three felony rape charges.
....
Peter Neufeld, founder of the New York-based national Innocence Project and the attorney who represented Bromgard when he was exonerated, said the charges illustrate a larger national trend.
The only physical evidence in Bromgard’s conviction was a microscopic hair analysis, a technique that has largely been discredited and linked to hundreds of wrongful convictions nationwide. In April, the Innocence Project, U.S. Department of Justice, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the FBI issued