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How Many Innocent People Has Harris County Sent to Prison?

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That's the title of Randall Patterson's lengthy article in the current Houston Press. LINK  Here'a an extended excerpt from the beginning:Ronald Gene Taylor's long night began one morning 15 years ago when he was awakened by the sound of police kicking in the neighbor's door. Taylor was 33 years old at the time ? a black man who had dropped out of high school, served time in prison for cocaine possession, forgery and burglary and was working construction, living alone in a small house in the Third Ward. By many conventions, he was the perfect suspect, and so it was that, having pulled on pants and a shirt, and having rushed outside to see what was happening to the neighbor, Taylor learned that the police had come for him. They pushed him into the car and whisked him off to the station...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 09, 2008 (boomark / email).