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Why the Claude Jones Case Matters

By Steve Hall

Texas Observer editor Bob Moser posts, "Blood on Our Hands: Why the Jones Case Matters.  What the DNA results tell Texas citizens?and journalists." On Friday morning in Houston, I spoke at a news conference discussing the upshot of the Observer's successful lawsuit to preserve and test DNA evidence that might have posthumously exonerated Claude Jones, who was executed on Dec. 7, 2000. Former Gov. Mark White, Innocence Project director Barry Scheck, and attorneys from Mayer Brown, the firm that won the suit, also addressed the media along with Jones' son, Duane. As Dave Mann has reported, the DNA evidence didn't prove Jones' innocence?but it did show that he was convicted, and executed, based on false evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).