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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
45k is not enough to live on unless you and your family are never sick.  |
Or you're single and just starting out.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
In this case, yes. The jury only heard what the DA wanted them to hear. They failed to give exculpatory evidence that the victim was seen with 3 other men the night she was murdered (and not the accused) to the defense. The DA is required BY LAW to disclose that. Mr. Ward also had an alibi, in that he had another girlfriend and spent the night with her at her aunt's house - while the aunt was home.
When you have the DA and the police lieing in a case just to get a conviction, things can go very badly. It's interesting that Dallas County has reviewed over 40 rape convictions in the past few years and exonerated 19 of them based on DNA evidence. Fortunately for these guys, the county kept DNA evidence. Unfortunately for a lot of other inmates, Dallas County is about the only one in Texas that did.
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This is the same guy those office prosecuted the Randall Dale Adams case. A man who came within 3 days of execution for a crime he was later cleared. Errol Morris made a documentary film, The Thin Blue Line, about Adams and his case.
I have to think there's at least a serious possibility that not everyone on Texas's death row is guilty and several innocent guys may well have fried.