| First Name | Ada Joanne |
| Last Name | Taylor |
| Year of Conviction | 1990 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2009 |
| Testing inculpated culprit | Non-Cold Hit |
| State of Conviction | Nebraska |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Guilty Plea |
| Type of Crime | Murder |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Gender of Exoneree | Female |
| Race of exoneree | White |
| Juvenile | No |
| Mentally Ill or Intellectually Disabled | Mentally Ill |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| Were non-public facts alleged? | Yes |
| Type of Forensic Evidence |
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| Types of Flawed Forensics |
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| Reason why invalid | (1) Masking |
| Brief Quote / Description of Testimony | Fingerprint and hair comparison excluded defendant. Analyst testified in Joseph White’s trial that serology was consistent with two co-defendants, without providing any statistics or explaining that those findings were also entirely consistent with the victim and none could be excluded. |
| Examples of Non-Public or Corroborated Facts and Inconsistencies | ● Described general layout of victim’s apartment ● Described involvement of others in a rape ● Described a pink towel used to bind the victim ● Described Sheldon being pushed into the wall BUT had described attack occurring in a “light colored house” not an apartment. She also described that law enforcement helped her to remember much of what she testified to. Taylor had been diagnosed with a “personality disorder” by a police psychologist and described having problems with her memory and a belief she had telepathic abilities, but was not evaluated by a defense expert. |
| Quotes from law enforcement testimony | Guilty Plea – No trial. But testified in Joseph White trial. |
| Interrogation Recorded | Videotape of part of interrogation |
| Jailhouse informant, Co-defendant, Incentivized Witness | CD |
| Examples of Non-Public or Corroborated Facts and Inconsistencies | ● Non-public facts described in false confession Appendix concerning other “Beatrice Six” defendants Dean, Shelden, and Winslow. |
| Highest level reached | NR |