Dallas County District AttorneyClaude Simmons is one of two men being exonerated for a 1997 murder he did not commit.​Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins's office sends word this morning that two men convicted of murder in October 1997 -- 54-year-old Claude Alvin Simmons Jr. and 39-year-old Christopher Shun Scott -- have been exonerated. Says Watkins's spokesperson, Jamille Bradfield, these are "the first two non-DNA exonerations since Mr. Watkins has been in office." And per the pre