DALLAS (AP) — The Texas prosecutor leading an aggressive push to free wrongly imprisoned inmates, in a county where more than two dozen wrongful convictions have been overturned, is calling for a review of the capital punishment system in the nation's busiest death penalty state.
Craig Watkins' tenure as Dallas County's top prosecutor has earned him a national reputation. Now, as Watkins …
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AP Interview: Texas DA seeks death penalty review
February 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Attorney: Lawyer earned fees paid by exonerees
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — An attorney credited for pushing a law that made Texas the most generous state in the nation in compensating the wrongly convicted earned his fees by fighting to get two clients as much money as possible after they were exonerated by DNA, his lawyer said Monday.
Opening statements were held in the State Bar of Texas' lawsuit against Kevin Glasheen. The bar association …
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Minimizing The Risk Of Mistaken Eyewitness ID
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Senior Judge Leads Effort On Chief Cause Of Wrongful Convictions
We've all seen crime dramas in which a witness points to a suspect in a lineup and says, "Yes, that's the man. I'm sure of it."
But in the real world, there is a surprisingly high possibility that, no, it isn't the man. In the past 15 years, 273 people convicted of serious crimes — mainly murder and sexual assault — …
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Matt Reed: Neither a killer nor ‘innocent,’ Dillon deserves pay
January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Legislature should disregard past character in deciding claims bill
Right away, before voting on other bills, the Florida Legislature should rectify one of Brevard County’s ugliest miscarriages of justice. It should pay William Dillon $810,000 for the 27 years he spent in prison for a murder that sheriff’s detectives and DNA evidence say he did not commit.
Our state representatives must …
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Beyond DNA, Difficult Tests for the Justice System
December 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Freeing the wrongfully convicted through science was the easy part. Now what?
The scene this mid-November night felt more like a clip from Leave It To Beaver than Law and Order. Dale Duke sat with his elderly parents eating dinner in their quiet Dallas home. A crystal vase of red roses decorated the dining room table; soft classical music played in the background. The family dressed neatly …
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DeJac expects worst from state in suit
December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sees an attempt to link her to daughter’s death
Lynn M. DeJac Peters says she fully expects lawyers for the state to attempt to connect her to the death of her daughter when she soon goes to civil trial seeking $14 million in damages for her more than 13z years of wrongful imprisonment.
The Attorney General’s Office will ignore the fact that DeJac Peters was exonerated by DNA evidence that …
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DA in the Michael Morton case apologizes for wrongful conviction
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
GEORGETOWN -- The man who prosecuted Michael Morton apologized Wednesday. However, the daughter of another murder victim isn't buying it 25 years after the fact.
Caitlin Baker's mother, Debra, was murdered in 1988, two years after Christine Morton was murdered. Baker says if the district attorney at the time, Ken Anderson, had prosecuted the right man, perhaps her mother would still be …
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Rumblings: New legislation may reinstate New Jersey death penalty; man to speak after about being freed from death row; attorney steals money from wrongly convicted ex-inmates…
January 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A man once convicted of a rape has since been cleared of the crime is now filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the village and police investigators. Woodridge Patch
Ron Keine escaped death by a New Mexico gas chamber 10 days before his scheduled execution and will now share his story to crowds in Louisville. Public News Service
After serving 27 years in prison, a man wrongfully …
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Exonerated Man Says Police Failed to Vet Suspects
December 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Drew Whitley’s federal lawsuit claims tunnel-vision by police entrapped the wrong man in brutal 1978 McDonald's slaying near Kennywood Park
By Katie Hildman
Innocence Institute of Point Park University
innocence@pointpark.edu
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Three years after DNA tests exonerated Drew Whitley in the murder of a 22-year-old McDonald’s night manager, his attorney has alleged in civil court …
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At emotional hearing, relatives finally hear man’s name cleared
November 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Twenty-two years ago, Ruby Session listened in disbelief as a Lubbock jury convicted her son, Timothy Cole, of rape. She promised herself that one day she would make sure this injustice was corrected.
"I always had faith and I just believed that it would one day happen," Session said. …
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