Convicted murderer's innocence claim disproved by DNA test
Stations: Note contents in third graf WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ A convicted murderer in Florida says he didn't do it, but new D-N-A tests are linking him to a decades-old crime. Learie Alford is serving a life sentence for the 1973 slaying of a 13-year-old girl. Carol Blevins had been blindfolded, raped and shot repeatedly. Alford has maintained his innocence, and had his death sentence commuted to life in prison after a witness changed his testimony.
Test results show that the girl's blood was on Alford's clothes, and his semen was inside the girl.
Palm Beach County prosecutors say the D-N-A evidence proves "beyond any doubt at all" that Alford committed the crime. A state attorney accused the inmate of wasting time and money in a false pleading.
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