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Dallas TX: Cornelius Dupree Jr. and Cory Session: Preventing miscarriages of justice

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Cornelius Dupree Jr. and Cory Session: Preventing miscarriages of justice January 7, 2011 Dallas Morning News (Cornelius Dupree Jr. served 30 years in prison before his conviction was overturned on Jan. 4, 2011, based on DNA evidence. Cory Session is the brother of Timothy Cole and the policy director for the Innocence Project of Texas.) There has been a lot of talk lately about the government taking away people's freedoms, which both of us know about firsthand. One of us, Cornelius Dupree, was arrested in 1979 for rape and aggravated robbery at the age of 19. Last week, after serving 30 years in prison, the courts finally admitted they had made a mistake after DNA testing proved this to be a wrongful conviction. And Cory Session had the unfortunate experience of seeing his brother branded the "Tech Rapist" and sentenced to 25 years in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 08, 2011 (boomark / email).