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Texas Strikes Again

We found out this weekend that Earnest Sonnier spent 23 years in a Texas prison for a rape he didn?t commit: State district Judge Michael McSpadden asked for an expedited release for Ernest Sonnier, 46, who was convicted of a 1985 sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison. The Innocence Project, a national organization working to exonerate wrongfully convicted people, began conducting new tests last year that cast doubt on his guilt, attorneys said.Sonnier was released on his own recognizance. He will wear a GPS monitoring device and be supervised as a condition of his release while attorneys move to have him officially exonerated. Evidently, the new DNA test results from the victims clothing: [Y]ielded no trace of Mr. Sonnier, the Harris County district attorney?s office said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).