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State Needs Innocence Commission

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That's the title of an editorial in Sunday's Dallas Morning News.  LINKA poignant drama unfolded in the state Capitol last week that should have been witnessed by all Texans.     Nine men at a head table in the Senate chamber looked out at a sea of faces and shared stories of lost freedom. Unjustly convicted in Texas courts, each was locked away in prison until the truth of his innocence was established, most of them through DNA tests. The first to speak, James Lee Woodard, lost 27 years after the travesty of a wrongful conviction in Dallas County. Brandon Moon spoke of his lost 17 years. And Charles Chatman, 27 years. James Curtis Giles, 10 years. Carlos Lavernia, 15 years. Alejandro Hernandez, 13 years. Billy James Smith, 19 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).