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News for the Panhandle from ProNews 7
Latest news from around the Texas Panhandle, the State of Texas and the Nation/World
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
The Texas State House has passed HB 166, which would create the Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Local attorney Jeff Blackburn says the Innocence Project is collaborating with the State Fire Marshall to look into about 10 cases in which suspects convicted of arson may, in fact, have been wrongfully convicted.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
The Innocence Project has asked a Texas court to "restore the reputation" of a man it claims was wrongly convicted and executed for killing his three children in a house fire.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Gov. Rick Perry presented Tim Cole's family with a posthumous pardon to acknowledge Cole's innocence.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Former Texas Governor Mark White said today that he thinks it is time to rethink using the death penalty, because it is no longer a threat to would-be murderers.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
The Innocence Project of Texas said Friday that scent identification lineups, in which trained dogs determine if a suspect's smell matches the smell of crime scene evidence, are based on faulty science and have led to a number of wrongful convictions.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
In January, Tim Cole was the first man to ever be exonerated by posthumous DNA, now thanks to local students and attorney Jeff Blackburn a law may be named in his honor.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
The House has voted to boost the compensation to those who are wrongfully convicted and sent to prison.
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
A state district judge is expected to formally clear a man who died in prison 13 years into a 25-year sentence for a rape he did not commit, making him the first posthumous DNA exoneration in Texas history.
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
A state district judge is expected to formally clear a man who died in prison 13 years into a 25-year sentence for a rape he did not commit, making him the first posthumous DNA exoneration in Texas history.
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Monday, February 02, 2009
The family of a convicted rapist returns to a Lubbock courtroom this week to ask a judge to overturn his conviction.
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