| First Name | Joseph |
| Last Name | White |
| Year of Conviction | 1989 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2008 |
| Testing inculpated culprit | Non-Cold Hit |
| State of Conviction | Nebraska |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Trial |
| Type of Crime | Murder |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Life / LWOP sentence | Life |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | White |
| Juvenile | No |
| Did the defendant testify at trial? | Yes |
| Quotes from Exoneree Testimony | “Did you know [the victim]?” A. No, I didn’t. Q. Did you know anything about her? A. No. Q. Did you participate in her apartment on the 5th of February, 1985? A. No.” |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| 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 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. |
| Jailhouse informant, Co-defendant, Incentivized Witness | CD |
| Examples of Non-Public or Corroborated Facts and Inconsistencies | ● Non-public facts including in false confession Appendix concerning other “Beatrice Six” defendants Dean, Taylor, Shelden, and Winslow. |
| Highest level reached | Appeal |
| Citations to judicial opinions | State v. White, 477 N.W.2d 24 (Neb. 1991) |