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A Profile of Craig Watkins

By Steve Hall

The Guardian carries, "Dallas chief prosecutor Craig Watkins fights injustice and racism."  It's written by Chris McGreal and datelined Dallas.Chris Scott spent a dozen years pleading his innocence from one jail cell after another. Through a bizarre coincidence he even discovered who had committed the murder for which he was serving a life sentence in Texas. But the Dallas prosecutors who locked him away were not interested in Scott's appeals for justice. He was told the best he could hope for was parole when he was an old man. "There were no fingerprints, no murder weapon, no blood to convict me. There was just an eyewitness who the police set up to pick me out. I guess they didn't care about who they destroyed, they just wanted a conviction," said Scott, 40...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).