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The Case of Tim Cole

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"Seeking justice for convict who died in prison," is Steven Kreytak's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. Here's an extended excerpt:In 1985, Michele Mallin was abducted from a church parking lot near Texas Tech University in Lubbock, driven outside of town and raped. In photographic and live lineups, she identified fellow Tech student Tim Cole as her attacker. That sent Cole to prison, where he died of complications from asthma in 1999 at the age of 39. DNA tests and repeated confessions from another suspect ? who is serving life in prison for two other rapes in Lubbock in 1985 ? have since shown that Cole was probably innocent. On Thursday, Mallin will join members of Cole's family in an Austin courtroom to try to officially clear Cole's name...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).