The Alaska Innocence Project got the state Department of Law to agree to retest the evidence in the case of Gregory Marino, whom they believe to be innocent, but the Anchorage Police Department wants the Innocence Project to pay for it.

...the Innocence Project has hit a snag. The Anchorage Police Department told the Department of Law it wanted to be reimbursed financially for retrieving the 250 pieces of evidence (Bill Oberly, the Alaska Innocence Project executive director and attorney, says they don’t need every piece of the evidence, however). Oberly says he was told this week that APD estimates the first stage of testing—re-running fingerprints and palm prints—could take two people as much as 60 to 80 hours per person to locate, retrieve, and deliver the prints to the state crime lab, at a cost of up to $6,000.

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