"The claim that evidence in Davis's favor was not sufficient to reopen his case is simply stunning," said Larry Cox, the organization's executive director.
Vakhapov was found guilty and sentenced first to seven years in prison, despite counter-claims that evidence in the case was falsified.
The judge had just ruled that evidence in a drug case could not be used in court because it was the product of an illegal search.
Researchers at the University of Geneva now say they have found that evidence, in the form of a large deposit of sediment in the middle of the lake.
The family of a man who died after suffering an epileptic seizure while in police custody has been told that evidence in the case will be presented to a grand jury in July.
In 1996, Mr. Fyfe testified in the Soto case, in which a state judge in Gloucester County ruled that evidence in drug arrests of minority motorists was tainted by racial profiling.
Law-enforcement workers in Mexico regularly obtain information through torture, and prosecutors use that evidence in courts, which accept confessions extracted with the help of electric shocks, beatings or sexual abuse, human rights groups say.
After the State Police began its internal investigation last year, it notified district attorneys across the state that evidence in criminal cases examined by Mr. Veeder might have been compromised.
He presented the move as "a logical next step" to regulate a market left unregulated by the previous Labour government, adding that evidence in Australia showed caps on the overall cost of loans could be effective.
It was the second time in a year that evidence in a Scientology case had gone missing in France, and several lawyers and members of parliament suggested the organisation may have had a hand in its destruction.
He has hired some of the top lawyers in the country, who have argued that the police mishandled the case and asked that evidence in the case be kept private.
