Exoneration in Texas

GOVT 2306

15 pts

Exoneration Assignment: Entre Nax Karage

a. What are the specific details of the crime was he/she convicted of?

Entre Nax Karage was wrongfully convicted of murdering his girlfriend, Nary Na, who was found dead in a creek near Dallas. Karage was the first to report his girlfriend missing to the cops, but was later made a suspect in her murder. She had a coat hanger wrapped around her neck, and had suffered many trauma’s, mostly blunt force injuries. Nary Na’s murder was considered to be an especially violent death, the cause of death being blunt force injuries and ligature strangulation. Karage spent almost seven years in prison before DNA helped exonerate him.

b. What evidence was used to wrongfully convict him/her?

Karage denied having an involvement in the murder of his girlfriend. He cooperated properly for every test and interrogation performed. There had been no proof that Karage had come into any contact with blood that day yet the “presumptive” blood test they had done on Karage’s clothes came out positive, although this could have been easily thrown out due to the idea that it could have been “rust or vegetable-type products.”

Three years later Karage was brought in for trial, where the judge argued that he lacked a solid alibi. The prosecutor also said Karage was a “jealous” person, and was the only one in her life with the motive to murder her. Nary Na’s father said Karage was often jealous of her and showed his jealousy by striking her. The prosecutor summarized that Karage beat and strangled his girlfriend out of jealous rage, after finding out she had cheated on him. They also found Nary Na’s blood in the trunk of his car she had borrowed the day of her death. Prosecutors believed Karage only staged the “search” he had conducted for his girlfriend after her disappearance as a distraction for the cops. All the evidence they had to convict Entre Nax Karage of murder.

c. How long were they in prison? What...