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		<title>Texas Governor Grants First Posthumous Pardon to Tim Cole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Innocence Project of Texas is delighted to announce that earlier today Texas Governor Rick Perry granted the state&#8217;s first posthumous pardon to I.P.O.T. client Timothy Cole.  Cole was wrongfully convicted of a sexual assault in Lubbock County and died in prison serving time for that crime.  The true perpetrator confessed to the crime prior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ipoftexas.org/texas-governor-grants-first-posthumous-pardon-to-tim-cole/</link>
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		<title>Governor Perry Can Grant Posthumous Pardons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news!
The Texas Attorney General’s Office today issued an opinion stating that the Governor can grant posthumous pardons.  The opinion was requested on behalf of Timothy Cole, a man who died in prison in 1999 while serving a sentence for rape and was exonerated by the Innocence Project of Texas in February 2009. Click [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ipoftexas.org/governor-perry-can-grant-posthumous-pardons/</link>
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		<title>New York Times Story on IPOT&#8217;s dog scent lineup report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran a story today about IPOT&#8217;s dog scent lineup report and Fort Bend County Deputy Keith Pikett, whose work has sent  several innocent men to jail. The article details the cases of Curvis Bickam and Ron Curtis, two men who spent months in jail after being identified by Deputy Pikett [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ipoftexas.org/new-york-times-story-on-ipots-dog-scent-lineup-report/</link>
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		<title>IPOT Welcomes the 2009-2010 Board of Directors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Thursday, Innocence Project of Texas members met in Houston to elect the organization&#8217;s Board of Directors for the 2009-2010 year.  Our new Board members include some of the most successful criminal defense attorneys in the state in addition to exonerees and others dedicated to the cause of exonerating the wrongfully convicted.  The 2009-2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ipoftexas.org/ipot-welcomes-the-2009-2010-board-of-directors/</link>
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		<title>James Woodard Receives Pardon from Texas Governor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After spending more than 27 years incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, James Woodard has finally received a pardon from Texas Governor Rick Perry.  That event officially makes Woodard the 39th man exonerated by DNA evidence in Texas.
Upon learning that the Governor formally cleared his name, Mr. Woodard said: “I wish to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ipoftexas.org/james-woodard-receives-pardon-from-texas-governor/</link>
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