“In Mr. cooper’s case, while post-conviction DNA test results appear to include his DNA, the defense has also uncovered facts pointing to the possibility that law enforcement mishandled key items of evidence that could undercut the reliability of those test results.”

In August 2016, Hadar Harris, Justin Brooks, Paula Mitchell, and Barry Scheck from the Northern California Innocence Project, wrote a letter to Governor Jerry Brown in support of Kevin Cooper’s innocence.

Read the full letter:

2016-08-31 Letter from Northern California Innocence Project