Friday, October 29, 2010
Prison Inmate Denies Rape Charge
WEST VIRGINIA....
Donald Good, the man charged with the rapes of two women at the Huntington Mall in 1987, pleaded not guilty while being arraigned Friday morning in Cabell County Circuit Court before Judge Dan O'Hanlon. O’Hanlon agreed to a request from County Prosecutor Chris Chiles to obtain a DNA sample from Good. Chiles said he believes there was no chain of custody when the first sample was received, which later was used in the CODIS DNA match. CODIS is the FBI's DNA database program. Chiles said it is protocol that if the CODIS match was not obtained with chain of custody, another DNA sample needs to be taken with chain of custody to confirm the match. Good, who is already being held in the Mount Olive Correctional Facility, was denied bond. Investigators say his DNA matched that of previously unidentified DNA collected at the time of the attacks.
Donald Good, the man charged with the rapes of two women at the Huntington Mall in 1987, pleaded not guilty while being arraigned Friday morning in Cabell County Circuit Court before Judge Dan O'Hanlon. O’Hanlon agreed to a request from County Prosecutor Chris Chiles to obtain a DNA sample from Good. Chiles said he believes there was no chain of custody when the first sample was received, which later was used in the CODIS DNA match. CODIS is the FBI's DNA database program. Chiles said it is protocol that if the CODIS match was not obtained with chain of custody, another DNA sample needs to be taken with chain of custody to confirm the match. Good, who is already being held in the Mount Olive Correctional Facility, was denied bond. Investigators say his DNA matched that of previously unidentified DNA collected at the time of the attacks.
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