# Lynn DeJac

Overturned · 2007

Lynn DeJac Peters (November 20, 1963 – June 18, 2014) was an American woman from Buffalo, New York, who spent 13 years in prison for the murder of her daughter before her conviction was vacated in 2007, making her the first woman to be exonerated of murder on the basis of DNA evidence. She successfully sued the state of New York for wrongful conviction.

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=14485622
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/lynn-dejac-w14485622

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1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=14485622


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