Thomas Wayne Williams

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
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Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
County or Region of Crime:	Dallas
City of Crime:	Dallas
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	Wrongly convicted of drug charges on the basis of fake evidence manufactured by a ring of Dallas police officers who were shaking down people for money. Conviction commutted in 2002 by Texas Gov Rick Perry.
Conviction Caused By:	Police misconduct of using fake drugs to convict people who refused to pay a shakedown for money.
Innocence Proved By:	Pardoned by Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2002.
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"False Drug Convictions May Linger, Drug Sense Weekly, 09-13-2002"
Information Location 1:	http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2002/ds02.n267.html
Information Source 2:	"False Drug Convictions May Linger, Dallas Morning News, 08-08-2002"
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Thomas Wayne Williams

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

Dallas

City of Crime:

Dallas

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Wrongly convicted of drug charges on the basis of fake evidence manufactured by a ring of Dallas police officers who were shaking down people for money. Conviction commutted in 2002 by Texas Gov Rick Perry.

Conviction Caused By:

Police misconduct of using fake drugs to convict people who refused to pay a shakedown for money.

Innocence Proved By:

Pardoned by Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2002.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"False Drug Convictions May Linger, Drug Sense Weekly, 09-13-2002"

Information Location 1:

http://www.drugsense.org/dsw/2002/ds02.n267.html

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"False Drug Convictions May Linger, Dallas Morning News, 08-08-2002"

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