“Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins\u2019 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\u2026as a result of a district attorney\u2019s systematic testing without active request by a defendant.”<\/p>\n
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