Timothy Cole
Posted By The Editors | April 13th, 2010 | Category: Exoneree of the Week | Comments Off
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One year ago this week, Timothy Cole became the first person in Texas history to be posthumously exonerated through DNA testing. Cole served more than a decade in Texas prisons for a rape he didn’t commit before dying of a heart attack in 1999. The Innocence Project of Texas sought DNA testing in this case, which implicated another man as the perpetrator, posthumously clearing Cole.
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