Sep 22 2008
This weekend in Fort Worth at a training event sponsored by the Innocence Project of Texas and the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, I had the privilege of meeting the people at the center of two recent emotional and high-profile DNA exoneration cases.
Johnnie Lindsey was released Friday after spending nearly 26 years in prison on [...]
Sep 16 2008
Johnnie Lindsey was convicted of committing a 1981 rape, and he has spent the last 25 years and 11 months proclaiming his innocence. Lindsey, who is represented by Michelle Moore, President of the Innocence Project of Texas Board of Directors, has now been proven innocent by DNA testing. A hearing is scheduled for Friday, and [...]
Sep 16 2008
A long list of DNA-based exonerations in recent years have overturned the convictions of innocent people locked up in prison, sometimes for decades. The reasons are pretty consistent - mistaken witness identification, faulty forensic evidence, prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence, false confessions, and lying snitches cause the bulk of cases where innocents are convicted.
But DNA evidence [...]