By Lizette Alvarez
The New York Times
MIAMI — Seven years after he was sentenced to death in the fatal stabbings of two Florida women, Clemente Javier Aguirre appeared in a Seminole County courtroom on Monday to present DNA evidence that could win him a new trial.
Mr. Aguirre’s lawyers said that DNA testing they had ordered on dozens of previously untested items from the crime scene turned up none of Mr. Aguirre’s blood. But, the lawyers said, it revealed blood drops throughout the crime scene belonging to the daughter of one of the victims, a woman with a history of mental illness.
No crime scene DNA testing was ever requested by Mr. Aguirre’s original trial lawyer in 2006.
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