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Duncan, Ellis championing cause of innocent man who died in prison

On the innocence front, state Senators Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock) and Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) say they'll team up during the 81st Texas Legislature to extend compensation to families of innocent inmates who died in prison before they were exonerated, creating a mechanism to formally clear the name of those unhappy souls who did not live to see their innocence proven.br /br /This effort stems from the Tim Cole case out of Lubbock, where a Texas Tech student was falsely accused of rape after the victim identified him in a photo lineup. a href="http://lubbockonline.com/stories/122108/loc_370072646.shtml"Reported the Lubbock Avalanche Journal/a:br /blockquoteState Sens. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, and Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, may clarify how the state compensates and exonerates wrongfully convicted inmates who die in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).