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Claude Jones Case - Additional News Coverage

By Steve Hall

The Innocence Project is holding a news conference this morning.  I'll post coverage as soon as it becomes available. The Innocence Project has also posted this timeline of the case. If you haven't already read Dave Mann's exclusive "DNA Tests Undermine Evidence in Texas Execution:  New results show Claude Jones was put to death on flawed evidence," you'll want to. The latest version of the AP report by Jeff Carlton is, "Test finds hair in murder case doesn't match," via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. When career criminal Claude Jones was condemned after a robbery and slaying in 1989 at a San Jacinto County liquor store, a single hair was the only physical evidence linking him to the crime scene...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).