Mississippi Supreme Court Case: The Kennedy Brewer Case

Then there was the Kennedy Brewer case. In 1995 a Mississippi jury found Kennedy Brewer guilty of the 1991 rape and murder of the three-year-old daughter of his girlfriend. His conviction was based almost entirely on the testimony of forensic odontologist, Dr. Michael West. Dr. West placed the defendant, Kennedy Brewer, at the scene through bite marks on the victim’s body. Sentenced to death on March 25, 1995, Brewer was moved to death row at the Mississippi State Penitentiary where he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
In 1997 the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed the conviction, but in 2002, DNA evidence incriminated two other men – not Kennedy Brewer. Based on this new evidence, Brewer was awarded a new trial. Prosecutors vowed