William Cash Love

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
Sentence:	434 years
Years Imprisoned:	4.18
Year Crime:	1999
Year Convicted:	2000
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
County or Region of Crime:	Swisher
City of Crime:	Tulia
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"William Cash Love was one of the Tulia 38 wrongly convicted of selling and/or distributing cocaine in and around Tulia, Texas based solely on the word of a discredited Swisher County, Texas undercover sheriff's deputy Tom Coleman. Texas Governor Rick Perry pardoned 35 of the Tulia defendants on August 22, 2003. William Cash Love wasn't pardoned because the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated his conviction on July 21, 2003."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjured testimony of the prosecutions sole witness - a sheriff's deputy
Innocence Proved By:	"Conviction vacated by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on July 21, 2003. Disclosure during an evidentiary hearing in March 2003 that the testimony of the prosecution's sole witness - Tom Coleman - is wholly unreliable."
Defendant Aided By:
Compensation Awarded:	"$236,000 plus total. $106,249.99 lump sum payment (State of Texas, 8-29-2007) and, $130,435 (Swisher County and other defendants, May 2004)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:
Age When Released:
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Travesty in Tulia, Texas - Frame-up of 38 Innocent People Orchestrated by a County Sheriff, Prosecutor and Judge, By Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied magazine, Issue 23, Winter 2004, pp. 3-5, 27"
Information Location 1:	http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_23/tulia_travesty.html
Information Source 2:	"Gov. Perry Grants Pardons to 35 Tulia Defendants, Press Release, Office of the Governor Rick Perry, August 22, 2003"
Information Location 2:	http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/4995/
Information Source 3:	"Perry pardons 35 in Tulia case, By Greg Cunningham (staff), Amarillo Globe-News, August 23, 2003"
Information Location 3:	http://amarillo.com/stories/082303/new_perrypardons.shtml
Information Source 4:	"Tulia, Texas, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern School of Law"
Information Location 4:	http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cwc/exonerations/txtuliasummary.html
Information Source 5:	"Sting Docket From Amarillo Globe-News, provided by Alan Bean, Exec. Dir of Friends of Justice in Tulia, TX, on July 25, 2003"
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William Cash Love

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

434 years

Years Imprisoned:

4.18

Year Crime:

1999

Year Convicted:

2000

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

Swisher

City of Crime:

Tulia

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjured testimony of the prosecutions sole witness - a sheriff's deputy

Innocence Proved By:

"Conviction vacated by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on July 21, 2003. Disclosure during an evidentiary hearing in March 2003 that the testimony of the prosecution's sole witness - Tom Coleman - is wholly unreliable."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$236,000 plus total. $106,249.99 lump sum payment (State of Texas, 8-29-2007) and, $130,435 (Swisher County and other defendants, May 2004)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Travesty in Tulia, Texas - Frame-up of 38 Innocent People Orchestrated by a County Sheriff, Prosecutor and Judge, By Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied magazine, Issue 23, Winter 2004, pp. 3-5, 27"

Information Location 1:

http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_23/tulia_travesty.html

Information Source 2:

"Gov. Perry Grants Pardons to 35 Tulia Defendants, Press Release, Office of the Governor Rick Perry, August 22, 2003"

Information Location 2:

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/4995/

Information Source 3:

"Perry pardons 35 in Tulia case, By Greg Cunningham (staff), Amarillo Globe-News, August 23, 2003"

Information Location 3:

http://amarillo.com/stories/082303/new_perrypardons.shtml

Information Source 4:

"Tulia, Texas, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern School of Law"

Information Location 4:

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cwc/exonerations/txtuliasummary.html

Information Source 5:

"Sting Docket From Amarillo Globe-News, provided by Alan Bean, Exec. Dir of Friends of Justice in Tulia, TX, on July 25, 2003"

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