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John Vance

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2011

    Tomorrow, Dallas County Will Clear Name of Man Imprisoned For Assault He Didn't Commit

    ​Speaking of the innocent spending time behind bars ...Meet Hilliard Fields. On August 27, 1997, Fields, who was then in his mid-20s, told prosecutors he was guilty of sexually assaulting a minor. Fields was also facing an unrelated drug charge, and authorities told him: Look, just plead guilty to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2011

    A Belated Farewell to The Thin Blue Line's Randall Dale Adams, "The First Innocent Man"

    Via.Randall Dale Adams's mugshot for the crime he did not commit​"It's an Everyman's story. It's the story of someone slipping through the cracks -- if you like, a nonfiction Twilight Zone episode." That was filmmaker Errol Morris talking, in 1988, about his documentary The Thin Blue Line -- other ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Craig Watkins Is Feeling a Little Picked On, So Just Back Off, 'K?

    Via.Randall Dale Adams's mugshot for the crime he did not commit​"It's an Everyman's story. It's the story of someone slipping through the cracks -- if you like, a nonfiction Twilight Zone episode." That was filmmaker Errol Morris talking, in 1988, about his documentary The Thin Blue Line -- other ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2008

    A Former Dallas Democrat Seeks to Become the State's Most Powerful Prosecutor

    Via.Randall Dale Adams's mugshot for the crime he did not commit​"It's an Everyman's story. It's the story of someone slipping through the cracks -- if you like, a nonfiction Twilight Zone episode." That was filmmaker Errol Morris talking, in 1988, about his documentary The Thin Blue Line -- other ... More >>

  • News

    January 17, 2008

    Sharon Keller is Texas' Judge Dread

    When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

  • News

    September 27, 2007

    A Devil's Deal in Dallas Court

    A terrible crime plus skaky evidence tempts prosecutors to play a secret game of "let's make a deal"

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    Chains of Evidence

    How did Dallas convict so many innocents? With faulty eyewitnesses, sloppy police work and overzealous prosecutors.

  • News

    August 2, 2001

    Beg Pardon

    Anti-drug war forces unleash a potent weapon to free a convict--a little girl

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    Equal work, unequal pay

    Two former Dallas prosecutors say that's what they suffered

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Buzz

    Two former Dallas prosecutors say that's what they suffered

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    Letters

    Two former Dallas prosecutors say that's what they suffered

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    The Wrong Man

    The case against Nickiolas Jolly fell apart within a month of his arrest for capital murder. But keeping an innocent man in jail 14 months is no big deal in this town.

  • News

    October 15, 1998

    The Race Not Run

    Republican Bill Hill is running against Democrat Rick Reed for district attorney. Don't think you have a choice.

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Letters

    Republican Bill Hill is running against Democrat Rick Reed for district attorney. Don't think you have a choice.

  • News

    January 23, 1997

    Mommie dearest

    Why I'm trading my typewriter for diapers and drool cloths

  • News

    July 18, 1996

    The Dope Bowl

    Lawyers, goons, money--and some very curious sex toys. Laura Miller does the post-game analysis of the Michael Irvin trial.

  • News

    September 14, 1995

    Attack of the Killer Gadflies (Part I)

    You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

  • News

    June 15, 1995

    Letters

    You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

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