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Extradited and Innocent

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DNA testing isn't the only way to prove actual innocence. According to Kevin Krause at the Dallas News: A 30-year-old man mistaken for a Dallas County fugitive spent nearly four months in an Alabama jail for crimes he didn't commit because sheriff's officials did not make routine fingerprint checks. Samuel David Ramirez Perez was arrested in a small southern Alabama town in November after a traffic stop revealed he shared the name of a man wanted in Dallas County on 1999 felony drug charges. After his arrest, Perez repeatedly insisted he was not the man wanted in Texas and fought extradition. But sheriff's officials here and in Alabama didn't ask each other for fingerprints they had on file that would have set Perez free. Last month, a Dallas County sheriff's deputy flew to Baldwin County, Ala...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 16, 2010 (boomark / email).

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