19th Dallas man (in a 7 year period!!) freed after DNA testing

[rainbow4321]

To make it worse...the real criminals have confessed to the crime but
the statute of limitations has expired.


http://www.star-telegram.com/dallas_news/story/726809.html

A man who has spent more than 15 years in prison for kidnapping and robbery is expected to become the latest wrongly convicted Dallas County man proven innocent by DNA testing, a prosecutor said Thursday.

A hearing is scheduled for July 3 in state district court in Dallas for 38-year-old Patrick Waller, who was convicted of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery and cocaine possession in connection with a 1992 kidnapping and assault. DNA testing conducted late last year excluded Waller as the contributor of DNA found at the crime scene, said Mike Ware, the head of the Conviction Integrity Unit in the Dallas County District Attorney's Office.

The DNA testing proved a match to another man, whom Ware said has since confessed to the crime and implicated an accomplice. That accomplice has also confessed, Ware said.

Counting Waller, DNA testing has proven the innocence of 19 Dallas County men since 2001, which is a national high, according to the Innocence Project, a New York-based legal center that specializes in overturning wrongful convictions. Texas leads the nation with 33 such exonerations.

[varkam]

1. Texas is all about law and order.

Texas is not, though, all about justice.