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Another Exoneration in Texas

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Al Dia's Octavio Rivera Lopez writes in today's Dallas Morning News, "Murder conviction overturned: Man walks free in West Texas after 12 years."April 29, 2008, will forever be engraved in Alberto Sifuentes' memory.     That Tuesday he walked out of the Lamb County jail in Littlefield, Texas, a free man after almost 12 years behind bars for a murder he says he didn't commit. Mr. Sifuentes had been arrested, along with Jesús Ramírez, tried for capital murder and condemned to life in prison for the 1996 killing of Evangelina "Angie" Cruz, a clerk at the Jolly Roger store in Littlefield, a town about 40 miles northwest of Lubbock. The mother of four was shot nine times in a robbery of the store.     The two men maintained for more than a decade that they weren't near the store on the night that Ms...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).