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Dallas sees 17th DNA exoneration

By Gritsforbreakfast

Dallas County saw its 17th DNA exoneration today, with the release of James Lee Woodward, who was wrongly convicted after prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence from his lawyers and police failed to investigate it. Woodard's was a case where nobody needed DNA evidence to tell Woodard didn't get a fair trial, reported the News:James Lee Woodard was seeking a new trial at the 1981 hearing, alleging that prosecutors did not fully disclose information about Ms. Jones' whereabouts the night she was killed. The judge, John Ovard, who was also the trial judge, denied the new trial and formally sentenced him.The judge and the district attorney's office could have righted Mr. Woodard's wrongful conviction in 1981, just months later, said Natalie Roetzel, executive director of the Innocence Project of Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).