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American-Statesman Praises Baird Actions in Cole Exoneration

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"Travis County judge finds justice after all," is the title of the editorial in today's Austin paper.Justice was a long time coming for Timothy Cole, and it arrived too late to do him any good. But a court ruling that Cole was innocent of the rape charges that sent him to prison was deserved. Cole died in prison in 1999, but his family sought post-mortem exoneration for him because they believed the rape charge was false. A confession by another inmate and DNA evidence showing that Cole was not the rapist convinced his family that he was as innocent as he always said he was. Although the rape occurred in Lubbock in 1985, authorities there were not interested in reopening the case after the new evidence surfaced. That fell to Travis County state District Judge Charlie Baird, who agreed to hear testimony in the case last week after being asked to by the Innocence Project of Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).