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Paul House Exonerated in Tennessee

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AP reports, "Charges dropped against former TN death row inmate."Prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against a former inmate who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before the U.S. Supreme Court questioned his guilt.Prosecutors acknowledged in a surprise petition that new evidence raises doubts that Paul House acted alone in the 1985 death of a young mother and clouds his possible role. House, who spent 22 years on death row, has been under house arrest while awaiting a new trial.House has maintained he didn't kill Carolyn Muncey, whose body was found near her rural Union County home northeast of Knoxville in 1985. Told prosecutors still suspect he was involved in the crime, House responded, "What do you expect them to say?""I guess they handled it pretty bad," House said in a phone interview...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).