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The Exonerator

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That's the title of a profile of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins from the Saturday Wall Street Journal.  It contains interactive features and graphics available at this LINK.  Scroll down for a WSJ interview with exoneree James Woodard.  Also in this post is a link to a Q and A with Watkins in the Sunday Fort Worth Star-Telegram.Here's an excerpt from the WSJ profile.Craig Watkins may be the only prosecutor in America who is making his name getting people out of prison. As district attorney of Dallas County, Mr. Watkins is using DNA evidence to investigate more than 400 guilty verdicts notched up by his predecessors. His office's Conviction Integrity Unit, launched last year for this purpose, has so far cleared six men wrongly convicted of rape, murder or robbery...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 17, 2008 (boomark / email).