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Today's Dallas Morning News features an editorial, "Miller-El case finally ends, writing important chapter."  Here's an excerpt:The Miller-El case ?what an insult to the family of slain Irving hotel clerk Douglas Walker that the tortured search for justice in his death has taken the name of the killer. Blame the 22-year saga on past gamesmanship in the Dallas County district attorney's office, which required a righteous fight to root it out. Finally, prosecutors have accepted a guilty plea from Thomas Joe Miller-El in which he ducks the threat of execution in return for what amounts to a life sentence. The deal properly avoids the risk of his weaseling freedom from a new jury. The finality is years overdue in a case of clear-cut guilt in the savage 1985 robbery and murder of Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).