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Family Seeks To Clear Dead Inmate
Relatives are seeking to exonerate an inmate who died in a Texas prison while serving a 25-year sentence for rape.
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(June 29, 2008)--Attorneys are asking a court for a hearing that could lead to the posthumous exoneration of a man who died in prison while serving a 25-year sentence for rape.
If a court finds Timothy Brian Cole was wrongfully convicted, his would be the first posthumous DNA exoneration in Texas, according to Jeff Blackburn, Innocence Project of Texas chief counsel.
Lawyers with the Innocence Project filed a petition Friday asking the 99th District Court in Lubbock for an inquiry into Cole's conviction.
The court filing says evidence in the case had been preserved and was retested.
Blackburn said the Lubbock County district attorney confirmed this week to him that DNA testing of a semen sample excluded Cole and matched another man serving time for rape.
Cole was convicted in 1986 of the rape of a Texas Tech University student a year earlier.
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Jean, please do not claim to be from Killeen. You are making the rest of us look bad. If you do not like our laws, please move to another state. Better yet, another country. If you think it is ok for drug dealers to ride around with drugs in their cars and not get in trouble you are in the wrong area. We don't want drugs here, (Texas). Is it safe to say that you are from a state that allows drugs in the car? Well please move back, and take the drug dealers/users with you. And before you post a comment again, please learn how to speak on the internet. All Caps = Yelling at the person reading the comment.
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Jean, it almost sounds like you got your education from the Wyndham school district. There is so much wrong with your entire comment that I don't have enough characters left to explain it. It's a tragedy that an "unguilty" man died and a travesty what Jean is doing to the English language.
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Jean sound to me like you have had plenty of police activity in your life.It sounds to me that may be you should go live some place else. Dope deals and users get caught doing stupid things al the time,so stop hanging around stupid people and you won't have to worry about going to jail or prison.
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