14-Mar-2025

Georgia v. Johnny Lee Gates

In the push to reopen Johnny Lee Gates’s 1977 dubious conviction, his legal team pursued three separate paths: proving racial bias in jury selection, challenging a coerced confession, and testing DNA evidence. Only one route succeeded—DNA. A bathrobe belt and necktie left at the crime scene—evidence long thought destroyed—was rediscovered. Human interpretation of the degraded DNA mixture data was inconclusive. But TrueAllele's powerful computing conclusively excluded Gates, providing newly discovered exculpatory DNA evidence.

This Georgia case shows how TrueAllele transforms legacy forensic data into powerful evidence for DNA truth. TrueAllele pulls clarity from degraded, low-level DNA mixtures that other methods can’t resolve. Without it, Gates might still be imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. After Cybergenetics' expert testimony, he won a new trial— and was ultimately freed after spending over 43 wrongful years in prison.