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CCA Rules Former Inmate Innocent

By Steve Hall

"Court: Texas man freed after 27 years is innocent," is Juan Lozano's AP report, via the Washington Post. Texas' highest criminal court formally ruled Wednesday that a Houston man who was freed earlier this year after spending 27 years in prison for a rape he did not commit is innocent. In its brief opinion, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed with a lower court's recommendation that Michael Anthony Green be ruled innocent and that his conviction be set aside. "After reading it, I almost cried. I was so happy," Green said. The 44-year-old was released from prison in July after the Harris County District Attorney's Office reopened his case and new DNA tests it commissioned showed he did not commit the 1983 rape of a woman who had been abducted...continue to full post

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