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Wrongly Convicted Fort Worth Man gets State's First Posthumous Pardon (Died in Prison)
Star Telegram ^
| 2/28/2010
| ANNA M. TINSLEY
Posted on 03/01/2010 2:04:45 PM PST by Dallas59
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:04:46 PM PST
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
Lots of innocent men in prison for rape.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:05:54 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
To: Dallas59
Hmmmmmmm...that probly won’t cost the State of Texas too much....
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:06:13 PM PST
by
jessduntno
(They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth!)
To: Dallas59
That is so sad! I wish our justice system was well more just. People that are truly guilty sometimes walk away with little punishment or walk altogether on a technicality and then this.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:09:43 PM PST
by
christianhomeschoolmommaof3
(Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding but in expressing his own heart.)
To: FormerACLUmember
Lots of innocent men in prison for rape.
Yes, and the woman who ID'd him as the rapist should get at least 25 years (assuming she's still alive).
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:10:22 PM PST
by
Signalman
To: jessduntno
Sometimes a lawsuit needs to get filed.
If my wife/child/parent died in prison for a crime he or she did not commit, I’d be looking for a pound of flesh.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:12:20 PM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: FormerACLUmember
All men: Never take the babysitter home by yourself... always take someone with you.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:14:19 PM PST
by
CIDKauf
(No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:14:58 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Dallas59
Poor man. This should never have happened.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:16:40 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Dallas59
I thought the meme was that the death penalty was wrong because we might execute an innocent man. That we needed life in prison without parole instead because that would be more humane to let a man die in prison...
To: Dallas59
There is quite a bit of other information out there about this situation. The guy was framed by a group of over zealous police officers and detectives. The actual rapist sent numerous confession letters to the authorities during a period of over ten years while the innocent man was still alive. The letters were ignored. It was not until the guilty man directly contacted Tim Cole’s mother that the family got an attorney to force the DNA testing that proved his innocence.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:24:00 PM PST
by
fireman15
(Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
To: Dallas59
If he was wrongly convicted why did he get a pardon? Why didn’t they completely exonerate him?
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:24:05 PM PST
by
pfflier
To: Bobkk47
Of course she should not have. She acted in good faith. I would prefer holding the jury responsible more than the witnesses. That jury should be ashamed to the day the last one dies.
But the people of the state of Texas will pay and they should pay big time. This innocent man died in prison for lack of treatment. The state of Texas and every citizen of it should be ashamed.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:26:02 PM PST
by
JLS
(Democrats: People who wont even let you enjoy an unseasonably warm winter day)
To: Bobkk47
She is still alive. Her name is
Michelle Mallin. She admits to the false identification, citing poor light and pressure from the police. She worked with the Cole family to get Tim cleared.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:28:09 PM PST
by
atomic conspiracy
(Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
To: Dallas59
When does the state prosecute the person(s) who wrongly convicted the man?
Is there any consequence for that?
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:29:26 PM PST
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: TChris
We wouldn’t have any left if that happened./s
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:35:46 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Dallas59
Every time I read a story like this it makes my blood boil. For I, too, was found guilty (in 1982) for a crime I didn't commit. It does happen... here it is decades later and reading similar stories continues to make my blood boil.
Still, the older I get the less painful it gets.
But dying in prison for a crime you didn't commit. There should be hell to pay.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:35:47 PM PST
by
scripter
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
To: TChris
“Prosecutorial Immunity”
I learned of it in the MA Senate race.
Apparently the Democrat was the DA who championed all those “fake memory of child abuse” cases and put plenty of innocent fathers in prison -— a dream Democrat, in other words.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:36:57 PM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: FormerACLUmember
That’s why we should not execute rapists (unless, of course, that crime accompanies murder.)
Waaaaaaay too many false accusations and legitimate accusations which are simply erroneous.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:43:00 PM PST
by
Skywalk
(Transdimensional Jihad!)
To: fireman15
Isn’t it strange how the real rapist seems to have felt so much guilt over this but committed multiple rapes?
Maybe he values men but not women...I don’t know.
But it’s terrible. Tim Cole had asthma and the victim said the man was smoking constantly. Makes you want to hurt someone that they didn’t at least listen to the man WRITING IN for years to tell them Cole was innocent.
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posted on
03/01/2010 2:46:54 PM PST
by
Skywalk
(Transdimensional Jihad!)
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