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Tx CCA Overturns Blair Conviction

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This was definitely a case of waiting for the other shoe to drop, given the Collin County District Attorney's admission last month, noted here, that there was insufficient evidence to convict Michael Blair. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeal's brief ruling is here. Today's Dallas Morning News reports, "Appeals court overturns Michael Blair's conviction in Ashley Estell case," written by Tiara Ellis. Philip Wischkaemper and Roy Greenwood, Mr. Blair's appellate attorneys for the capital murder case, petitioned the original court for a new trial, a motion that Collin County prosecutors had fought for years. Then last month Collin County District Attorney John Roach released a statement saying that his office did not have enough evidence to support the conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 26, 2008 (boomark / email).