15-Jan-2024

Martin Luther King and Georgia exoneree Kerry Robinson

Kerry Robinson (center) with attorneys Jennifer Whitfield (left) and Rodney Zell (right). Photo by Miranda Taylor.

This month, Cybergenetics celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day by honoring his legacy of fighting for justice. Writing from a Birmingham jail fifty-five years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Cybergenetics fights for justice by using accurate and unbiased truth-seeking computing. Getting more information from DNA evidence fights crime and protects the innocent. Same data, better computing.

A notable Cybergenetics exoneration case is Georgia v. Kerry Robinson. With TrueAllele's help, Robinson was freed from prison four years ago this month.

Robinson was wrongly convicted of rape in 2002, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Convinced of his innocence, in 2018 Boise State Professor Greg Hampikian sent the DNA data to Cybergenetics. A more informative TrueAllele analysis statistically excluded Robinson from the vaginal swabs. Based on this new exculpatory DNA evidence, the Georgia Innocence Project and appellate attorney Rodney Zell filed a motion for a new trial. In January 2020, Judge Brian McDaniel vacated Robinson's conviction and released him from prison. In over a thousand cases, Cybergenetics has found DNA truth for fighting criminal injustice.