Updated: Ex-Death Row Inmate Wins DNA Test Ruling
Updated, April 9, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
Kerry Max Cook will get access to the DNA testing that he hopes will help bolster his claims of innocence in the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards and force the court to exonerate him of the crime more than a decade after he was released from prison. But Cook will have to continue his quest in the same county where he had been found guilty twice before, though both convictions were overturned.
Administrative Judge John Ovard, of Dallas, today granted Cook's request for DNA testing. But he denied Cook's ...
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Joseph Garza Medina via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If he really is innocent, I wish him luck. If not, well, I wish him the opposite of luck.
Jan Anderson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
About time legal reality caught up with the truth.
Phillip Baker
What a pattern- dirty DA gets raised to state judge. Maybe it's time people had some way of knowing these facts in a judge candidate's history before elections or appointments. Not sure how that'd happen, but we seem to have a number of such DA to judgeship elevations. What kind of justice can be expected from a DA who deliberately played dirty to get convictions and now passes judgment on others?
A. Bryant
I cannot believe how bad our "Un-Justice System" is! We vote them in and "HOPE" they will do the right thing for us...and they don't. They want a fast conviction and if they have to hide evidence from the defending attorneys to make a win; they do it way too often. Why aren't they prosecuted? Because they are all in kohoots together. We need to see both the good and bad but they are not going to publish information about their mistakes or putting innocent people on death row or in prison for life. Hell no, they go out and celebrate with eachother by drinking, getting drunk, laughing, back slapping, and bragging about their win in court at the expense of the innocent.