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Members of Tim Cole Panel Stop by His Grave Site

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Alex Branch's report in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  LINKMembers of a panel reviewing flaws in the Texas legal system visited Tarrant County on Thursday to study the district attorney?s much-praised policy of making its case files open to defense attorneys.Before they left, several members of the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions paid their respects to the man in whose name they pursue change.Under a heavy, cold rain, they joined Cole?s mother, Ruby Session, and his brother, Cory Session, at Cole?s headstone at Mount Olivet Cemetery in north Fort Worth.Cole, of Fort Worth, died in prison in 1999 while serving a 25-year sentence for a crime in Lubbock that he did not commit."People often say that the system always worked," Cory Session told the group as he stood over his brother?s grave...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).