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Texas death row exoneration in the works?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

“Collin County DA John Roach has, after 18 months in which his office spent 5,000 man-hours and more than $47,000 re-investigating the case, announced that there is no longer a good-faith basis for upholding the conviction of Michael Blair:” [here] “Troubling questions about our criminal justice are raised any time DNA testing shows that someone on death row is innocent,” said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic that consulted on the case. “But in this case, the community rushed to judgment because Michael Blair had a record as a sex offender ? while the apparent real perpetrator, who had no record, evaded justice.” [here] Blair should be moved off of death row & back to county jail soon, and from there, hopefully, released...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).