Entries tagged with “William Watson”

Sep 09, 2026

In New Filing, DNA Expert’s Recanted Testimony Further Undermines the Conviction and Death Sentence of Texas Prisoner Jeffery Prible

A foren­sic DNA ana­lyst whose tri­al tes­ti­mo­ny helped secure the 2002 con­vic­tion and death sen­tence of Ronald​“Jeffery” Prible has now dis­avowed that tes­ti­mo­ny, adding new weight to Mr. Prible’s long-stand­ing inno­cence claim in a case marked by seri­ous alle­ga­tions of pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al mis­con­duct. In an August 28 dec­la­ra­tion filed as part of con­tin­ued efforts to over­turn Mr. Prible’s con­vic­tion, DNA expert William Watson wrote that devel­op­ments in forensic…