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A First of its Kind Exoneration

[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]

“Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’ ongoing initiative to review untested rape kits revealed that Michael Phillips was innocent. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, this is the first time in the United States an exoneration of this nature has occurred…as a result of a district attorney’s systematic testing without active request by a defendant.”

http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2014/07/24/first-of-its-kind-exoneration-expected-tomorrow-in-dallas/

This entry was posted on Friday, July 25th, 2014 at 11:31 pm and is filed under Innocents. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “A First of its Kind Exoneration”

  1. Hugo S. Cunningham says:
    July 27, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    An honorable prosecutor in the USA? Next thing you know, I’ll be meeting Elvis in the super-market check-out line, next to the tabloid stand…