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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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4 |
Charge: |
Drug Related |
Sentence: |
18 years |
Year Convicted: |
1999 |
Year
Cleared:
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2003 |
Location
of Trial:
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Texas |
Result:
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Pardoned |
Summary
of Case:
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"One of the Tulia 38 wrongly convicted of selling and/or distributing cocaine in and around Tulia, TX based solely on the word of a discredited Swisher County, Texas undercover sheriff's deputy. Texas Governor Rick Perry pardoned 35 of the Tulia defendants on August 22, 2003." |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Perjured testimony of the prosecutions sole witness - a sheriff's deputy |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Disclosure during an evidentiary hearing in March 2003 that the testimony of the prosecution's sole witness - Tom Coleman - is wholly unreliable.
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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32 |
Age
When Released:
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36 |
Information Source 1: |
"12 Tulia Drug Defendants Released From Jail, Jim Henderson, Houston Chronicle, June 16, 2003." |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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