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Students, Innocence Projects, & Exonerations

By Steve Hall

This morning's Texas Tribune carries, "Student Work, Wins Increase on Innocence Projects," by Kate Ergenbright.Nick Vilbas knew he wasn?t studying law so he could eventually work for some high-powered corporation. He wanted to pursue justice for the wrongly accused, and he got the opportunity to do it before he even graduated from the Texas Tech University School of Law.Vilbas drafted legal filings and combed through piles of case documents on behalf of Timothy Cole, who died in prison while serving a 25-year sentence for a rape he did not commit. Eventually, the work of Vilbas and other student volunteers at the Innocence Project of Texas would lead Gov. Rick Perry to issue the first-ever posthumous exoneration in Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).