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The Case of Sonia Cacy

By Steve Hall

"Woman Charged With Murder Campaigns for Innocence," is the title of Brandi Grissom's report at the Texas Tribune, this morning.  Here's an extended excerpt from the beginning of this must-read: When Sonia Cacy walked out of prison after serving six years of a 99-year sentence for murder, she told reporters that those were just her first steps toward freedom. To be truly free, she told the San Antonio Express-News in 1998, she wanted her name cleared. She wanted to be exonerated of a crime that many experts say she did not commit. Twelve years later, Cacy is still not free despite multiple expert reports concluding that she did not douse her uncle with gasoline and light a fire that killed him and destroyed the small Fort Stockton home they shared...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).