NPR reports that Texas's first black District Attorney (why diversity matters), the Innocence Project, and the fact that Dallas stores its DNA, has helped exonerate a series of innocent men -- mostly black:
Cornelius Dupree Jr., who spent 30 years wrongfully imprisoned in connection with a rape and robbery case, said Tuesday that "it is a joy to be free again" after being officially exonerated in a Dallas courtroom.
For the past five years, Dallas has watched a parade of men, nearly all black, march out of the state prison system after wasting decades of their lives. Dupree, who served more time than any other Texas prisoner exonerated by DNA evidence, is the 21st from Dallas — that's more than all but two states.
Barry Scheck and his staff at the Innocence Project have been behind many of these exonerations, including Dupree's.
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Of the 21 men exonerated in Dallas, 20 were convicted on the strength of the victims' identification. That, in turn, has pointed the finger at the police and prosecutors who are now themselves accused of pushing rape victims to make cases. Scheck says that's what happened in Dupree's case, too.
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