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New Dallas County Exoneration

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"Dallas man freed from prison after 25 years," is Diane Jennings report in the Dallas Morning News.Twenty-six years ago, Steven Charles Phillips was vilified as one of Dallas' worst sexual predators, someone who terrorized dozens of women in a series of bizarre crimes. Officials considered him so dangerous that when he was paroled last year, the state wanted to commit him to a supervisory program similar to house arrest.At a hearing Tuesday, he was exonerated of all the crimes and freed after spending most of the last 25 years in prison. Mr. Phillips said he was able to do the time because he woke up every day knowing he was innocent. Now everyone knows.And:Innocence Project attorney Barry Scheck said the case was the result of "tunnel vision" on the part of police...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).