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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, June 10, 2010
A judge in Lubbock has thrown out a motion that sought depositions of investigators whose work led to Tim Cole's wrongful rape conviction.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Attorneys for Lubbock want a judge to throw out a motion seeking depositions from four ex-police officers whose 1985 investigation led to a wrongful rape conviction.
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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, March 01, 2010
Gov. Rick Perry has pardoned a man who died in prison after serving more than 10 years for a wrongful rape conviction.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Texas' pardons and parole board has recommended clemency in the case of man who died in prison after he was wrongly convicted of rape.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Attorneys for a man who died in prison after wrongly being convicted of rape have filed for a pardon with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
The Attorney General's Office of Texas says the Governor Rick Perry can issue a posthumous pardon.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
The mother of a Texas man who died in prison nearly ten years before DNA evidence cleared him of a rape conviction filed a lawsuit Friday seeking answers from the officials who imprisoned him.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Texas House has agreed with changes made in the Senate on a bill to boost payments to people who are wrongfully convicted and sent to prison.
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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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Thursday, February 05, 2009
DNA proved Tim Cole was innocent of the crime he was convicted of in 1985 but without a special move by a court his name won't be cleared.
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Thursday, February 05, 2009
The Legislature took on a somber tone Wednesday as lawmakers honored the family of a man who died in prison, only to have DNA testing show years later that he did not commit the rape he was convicted of.
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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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Monday, February 02, 2009
The family of convicted rapist Tim Cole returns to a Lubbock courtroom this week to ask a judge to overturn Cole's conviction
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