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Texas CCA recognizes two more non-DNA exonerations

According to AP: A Texas appeals court has agreed to set aside the convictions of two Dallas men wrongly imprisoned for capital murder. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a ruling Wednesday agreeing that 39-year-old Christopher Scott and 54-year-old Claude Simmons Jr. were innocent. The men were serving life sentences for the 1997 slaying of Alfonso Aguilar until their release last year. Prosecutors say another man confessed to the crime in a sworn videotaped statement from prison and implicated an alleged accomplice, who was arrested in October and charged with capital murder. Scott and Simmons will be eligible for compensation based on time served. Each will receive a lump sum of about $960,000, plus lifetime payments of about $80,000 a year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 04, 2010 (boomark / email).