Dennis Lee Allen

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Charge:	Murder and Robbery
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	15
Year Crime:	1999
Year Convicted:	2000
Year Cleared:	2018
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
County or Region of Crime:	Dallas
City of Crime:	Dallas
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Dennis Lee Allen and Stanley Orson Mozee were codefendants wrongly convicted in 2000 of the April 1999 murder and robbery of Pastor Jesse Borns Jr. in Dallas, Texas. Both Stanley Mozee and Dennis Allen were sentenced to life in prison."
Conviction Caused By:	Prejudicial prosecutor misconduct of withholding exculpatory evidence.
Innocence Proved By:	"On October 28, 2014 a Dallas County judge vacated the convictions of Mozee and Allen with the support of Dallas County DA Craig Watkins. The overturning of their convictions would become final after review of the judge's order by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals."
Defendant Aided By:	Innocence Project of Texas and Dallas County DA's Office
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Age When Imprisoned:	36
Age When Released:	51
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Dallas Men Free After Convictions Overturned, By Stephanie Lucero (Staff writer), KTXA-TV, CBS 11 (Dallas, TX), October 28, 2014"
Information Location 1:	http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/28/2-convicted-dallas-killers-could-be-set-free/
Information Source 2:	"Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Overturns Murder Conviction of Innocence Texas Client, By Staff, Innocence Project of Texas, January 10 2018"
Information Location 2:	https://innocencetexas.org/news/texas-court-of-criminal-appeals-overturns-murder-conviction-of-innocence-texas-client
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Dennis Lee Allen

Charge:

Murder and Robbery

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

15

Year Crime:

1999

Year Convicted:

2000

Year Cleared:

2018

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

Dallas

City of Crime:

Dallas

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

"Dennis Lee Allen and Stanley Orson Mozee were codefendants wrongly convicted in 2000 of the April 1999 murder and robbery of Pastor Jesse Borns Jr. in Dallas, Texas. Both Stanley Mozee and Dennis Allen were sentenced to life in prison."

Conviction Caused By:

Prejudicial prosecutor misconduct of withholding exculpatory evidence.

Innocence Proved By:

"On October 28, 2014 a Dallas County judge vacated the convictions of Mozee and Allen with the support of Dallas County DA Craig Watkins. The overturning of their convictions would become final after review of the judge's order by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals."

Defendant Aided By:

Innocence Project of Texas and Dallas County DA's Office

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

36

Age When Released:

51

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Dallas Men Free After Convictions Overturned, By Stephanie Lucero (Staff writer), KTXA-TV, CBS 11 (Dallas, TX), October 28, 2014"

Information Location 1:

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/28/2-convicted-dallas-killers-could-be-set-free/

Information Source 2:

"Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Overturns Murder Conviction of Innocence Texas Client, By Staff, Innocence Project of Texas, January 10 2018"

Information Location 2:

https://innocencetexas.org/news/texas-court-of-criminal-appeals-overturns-murder-conviction-of-innocence-texas-client

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