First Name | Kathy |
Last Name | Gonzalez |
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 | Hispanic |
Juvenile | 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 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. |
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 Shelden, Taylor and Winslow. |
Highest level reached | NR |