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Another man cleared by DNA in Dallas

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

A serial rapists final victim may be Steven Charles Phillips who appears to have been prosecuted and sentenced for another man’s crime. From media accounts: DNA tests show that a transient serial rapist wanted for sex crimes in several states is the perpetrator in a case in which DNA revealed another man was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault, the Dallas County district attorney’s office said Tuesday. But there will be no justice for Sidney Alvin Goodyear in that 1982 sexual assault and burglary. He died 10 years ago in a Texas prison, even as Steven Charles Phillips sat behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, said Mike Ware, who oversees the conviction integrity unit for the DA’s office. Mr. Phillips, 49, is one of 15 men exonerated by DNA testing in Dallas County since 2001 ? more than any other county in the nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).