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Continuing Coverage of Dallas Exonerations

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Thursday's Dallas Morning News carried the editorial, "Even non-DNA cases merit scrutiny."James Lee Woodard walked out of a Dallas County courthouse this week as the second local man to be cleared of a murder thanks to DNA evidence. Miscarriages of justice involving murder should cause Texans to feel especially queasy, given the state's hyperactive death chamber. And even though Mr. Woodard wouldn't have paid the ultimate price for someone else's crime, he did pay an outrageous 27 years on a life sentence. The shady dealings in the district attorney's office that caused this injustice conjure the grotesque specter of another murder case from the same era, that of Randall Dale Adams. As with Mr. Woodard, the Adams case involved the office of legendary hardball District Attorney Henry Wade...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).