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'When DAs Attack!'

You don't often see District Attorneys criticize one another, reporter Michael Hall says in the April issue of Texas Monthly in a story called "When DAs Attack!," but:In the continuing saga of the Mineola child sex cases (which I wrote about in ?Across the Line,? April 2009), the DA from Wood County has publicly and officially attacked the cases of a DA from Smith County, right next door. The cases involve six adults accused of running a sex kindergarten in Tyler and a series of child-sex shows at a swingers club in nearby Mineola. There was no other evidence except for the words of five children?no tangible physical evidence and no adult witnesses?but it was enough to send the first three defendants to prison for life in 2008. In our story, Jim Wheeler, Wood County DA, told me, ?There was a total lack of corroboration for what those kids said happened...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).