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Roundup: Recent but notable tidbits

Here are a few items I didn't get around to discussing this week that merit Grits readers' attention:Exonerees in the news Just-exonerated Cornelius Dupree and Cory Session, brother of the late Tim Cole, have a joint op ed in the Dallas News titled "Preventing miscarriages of justice." Dupree spent 30 years in prison before his conviction was overturned last week. Following his exoneration, Anthony Graves has moved back to Pflugerville, and KXAN-TV has an interview. Meanwhile, after being released on bail last summer, Allen Wayne Porter was formally exonerated this week in a Houston court, another case of erroneous eyewitness identification.Dallas justice lauded and larrupedBob Ray Sanders at the Fort Worth Startlegram says, "Every new DNA exoneration in Dallas reveals how broken the justice system is...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 09, 2011 (boomark / email).