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Tim Cole Posthumously Exonerated

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At the second day of the hearing on Tim Cole's innocence, State District Judge Charlie Baird recognized Cole's wrongful conviction and innocence.In continuing coverage, Austin American-Statesman reporter Steven Kreytak had, "Judge clears name of late convict in rape," in the Saturday paper.In what lawyers in the case say is a first-of-its-kind posthumous DNA exoneration, a judge in Travis County on Friday announced "to a 100 percent moral, factual and legal certainty" that Timothy Cole did not commit the 1985 Lubbock rape that sent him to prison, where he died in 1999. State District Judge Charlie Baird's announcement brought tears and exclamations of thanks from Cole's family. After court adjourned, Baird came down from the bench and embraced some of them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).