USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court today threw out the conviction of Carl Dausch

The Florida Supreme Court today threw out the conviction of Carl Dausch, 55, White. The court ruled that the evidence against Dausch wasn't sufficient to convict him of the July 1987 murder of Adrian Mobley. Dausch was sentenced to death On April 26, 2012 (see). While he now longer faces execution in Florida, Dausch will still remain in custody until he can transferred back to Indiana, where he was serving a 60-year rape sentence before being convicted in 2011 for Mobley's murder. Dausch was sentenced for the Indiana crime in October 1990 and his earliest possible release date is October 2017. The homicide wasn't revived until 2002, when the Florida Department of Law Enforcement received a grant to analyze DNA from unsolved cases. DNA taken from a cigarette in Mobley's car and from anal swabs taken at the time of the murder pointed at Dausch as a suspect. Dausch's fingerprints were also found on Mobley's car and on a cigarette lighter wrapper found inside. A witness at the time also gave the description of someone similar to Dausch leaving Mobley's abandoned car. But Dausch said he was hitchhiking back to Indiana on Interstate 75 when he was picked up, presumably, by the real killer. The only DNA placing Dausch with the victim statistically could have come from 1 in 29 white men - a much higher percentage than in other cases. And while finger and palm prints matching Dausch's were found on the rear driver's side door and roof of Mobley's car, none were found on the steering wheel, stick shift, radio or other areas near the driver's seat. Fingerprints found on Mobley's wallet didn't match Dausch's. The court found that the evidence against Dausch wasn't strong enough to convict him of murder, and said there was some plausibility to his alibi. "We do not take lightly the result that will flow from our decision today. We have reviewed the entire record in this case with the utmost seriousness and care. Yet, our comprehensive review of this case leaves us with the inescapable conclusion that the evidence is simply insufficient to conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Dausch was the person responsible for murdering Mobley," the court wrote.