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Revisiting Chris Ochoa

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Diane Jennings revisits the people at the center of a Travis County case -- a non-capital case -- that ended in the exoneration of two men, and changed the life of a crime victim's surviving mother.  Both articles appeared in Sunday's Dallas Morning News. First, "Two men's DNA exonerations in '88 Austin murder reveal triumph, tragedy."How could you do it? The question dogs Christopher Ochoa. It always will. In 1988, Mr. Ochoa, then a naive 22-year-old, confessed to a rape and murder he didn't commit, and accused an innocent friend, Richard Danziger, of the same crime to avoid the death penalty. The two men were sentenced to life in prison. Twelve years later, they were exonerated by DNA evidence and were among the first of a parade of people who have made Texas the national leader in acknowledging wrongful convictions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).