Keith Bush listens during a hearing to have his 1975 murder conviction vacated at Suffolk County Courthouse in Riverhead, New York. Although Jones was twice given a lie-detector test, Suffolk never mentioned anything about Jones at Bush's trial as required by legal precedent. The report labeled Jones, who died in 2006, as "perhaps the most viable suspect in Watson's murder." Spota was a longtime Suffolk district attorney and a former law partner of Sullivan, the prosecutor in the 1976 Bush trial. The report also said that testimony offered about fibers found at the murder scene is considered unreliable by today's forensic standards.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 22, 2019 20:15 UTC