Under former District Attorney Wade, a number of
innocent people were tried and convicted. How many
more inmates who claim they are innocent really were
wrongly incarcerated? The idea that years of freedom
can be taken away without justification is scary.
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Texas: Two Inmates Exonerated
Two Dallas men serving life sentences in prison in
a 1997 murder case are expected to be released
after another man confessed to the crime, the
Dallas County District Attorney’s Office said.
The two men, Claude Alvin Simmons Jr., 54,
and Christopher Shun Scott, 39, will appear
at a hearing on Friday. They have served
12 years in the killing of Alfonso Aguilar
during a break-in. After law students brought
statements by another man, Alonzo Hardy, 49,
to the attention of the district attorney’s office,
Mr. Hardy in June gave prosecutors a
lengthy videotaped confession. Mr. Hardy,
in prison since 1999 on a robbery conviction,
implicated another man in the killing,
Don Michael Anderson, 40, who was arrested Tuesday.
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