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Timothy Cole: Exonerated

In what he said was probably the "most important opinion of my judicial career," Judge Charlie Baird yesterday formally, posthumously exonerated Timothy Cole in a 16-page ruling in front of a bank of reporters and TV cameras. (See the full opinion.)Baird concluded that "the faulty work of the police and the misidentification produced by it was the primary reason why Tim Cole was wrongly convicted." But he expressed equal frustration with the courts for failing to rectify the wrong:From the day he was falsely convicted Mr. Cole asserted his innocence. Through years of appeals and later effort, he told anyone who would listen that he had not committed the crime.Court officials did not listen. His appeals and writs were routinely denied and his pleas were ignored...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).