It's becoming a trend in Dallas County to free wrongfully convicted inmates after DNA testing have shown they were the wrong guy(the most in the country). Every other week a black man walks free after being the victim of an over zealous prosecutor in the 70's. The motto of that District Attorney office was to "prosecute at all costs" and they even withheld key evidence that could have exonerated the defenders. Now it takes a courageous new black D.A to challenge all those convictions by then D.A Henry Wade (notoriously known for his perfect record-never lost a case, now we know why), he's going back in times with the help of The Innocence Project of Texas (volunteers graduates and lawyers) and studying more than 250 cases. 17 people have been freed so far, some spent more than 20 years in prison and always maintained their innocence. One even refused parole because one of the condition was to admit guilt for a simple consideration by the comitee.
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