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Update on the Sonnier Case

By Steve Hall

"Inmate fighting to clear name leaves jail," is Brian Rogers updated report posted at the Houston Chronicle.A Houston man sentenced to life in prison in 1986 walked out of jail today pending further investigation of the DNA evidence that put him away for aggravated kidnapping in the abduction and rape of an Alief woman more than 20 years ago.Innocence Project lawyers for Ernest Sonnier won the 46-year-old's release on a personal recognizcance bond pending further investigation, a move that was not opposed by the Harris County District Attorney's Office, spokeswoman Donna Hawkins said.DNA testing over the past 18 months implicated two convicted felons as the actual perpetrators of the 1985 crime, said Alba Morales, the Innocence Project staff attorney handling the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).