Dispensary Corner 06 May 10
May 6, 2010
AND DNA set him free!
A US man who has been
imprisoned for nearly 30 years
has been set free after DNA
evidence proved he was not
responsible for the crime that he
allegedly committed.
The 52-year old man, Raymond
Towler, was convicted of sex
crimes committed in a Cleveland
park in 1981 after a sketch of the
assailant which resembled Towler
caused a traffic officer to arrest him.
The DNA evidence submitted
by the Innocence Project (which
uses DNA to clear people
incarcerated for crimes they did
not commit), was submitted only
days ago - prompting prosecutors
to call for his immediate release.
In exoneratingTowler, the judge
said he had an absolute legal
recourse to sue the police.
The magistrate then stepped
down from the bench, shook his
hand and offered him a
traditional Irish blessing.
When asked how he would
adjust to his release Towler told
reporters that for now he would
“take a deep breath and just
enjoy life right now”.
SUGGESTION: Put the game away.
A 16-year old reporting to
doctors with a strange reddish
brown pigment and lesions over
his fingers, similar to those seen
in patients with lentiginous
melanoma, has been diagnosed
with subcorneal haematoma
caused by the friction between his
hands and the vibrating game
controller of a PlayStation 3.
The diagnosis was made after
doctors discovered the teenager
spent upwards of three hours a
day playing games on his
PlayStation.
“Once we were able to visualise
the controller ourselves, it was
immediately apparent that the
distribution of the pigmentation
corresponded very clearly with
the points of contact of the
controller with each index finger,”
said the boy’s doctor Sue Robertson.
Since diagnosis the boy has
stopped playing the game and his
pigment has subsequentially cleared!
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