I winced when asked to screen an advance copy of Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery's new six-part series that adds to the growing legend that is Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. It took Henry Wade decades in office to achieve legendary notoriety, but with the global media fawning over a DA who actually seems to be seeking justice rather than demanding it, and Watkins's personal penchant for pub, he's become more myth than man in less than 30 months.The subject of stories by 60 Mi
Johnnie Lindsey in a Central Dallas Ministries video that screened last weekOn The View this morning, when Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said Dallas County has exonerated 19 wrongly imprisoned men using DNA evidence, he received an enormous round of applause. But the appearance was less about Watkins than it was his office's Conviction Integrity Unit and Johnnie Lindsey, who, with the CIU's assistance, was released from prison last September after serving 26 years for an aggrava
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Moore -- who's on loan to Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins's Conviction Integrity Unit -- chimed in last night with a comment on Unfair Park. Specifically, she wanted to clear up any, well, let's just say misunderstandings stemming from last week's item concerning something Watkins said on The View, where he was joined by Moore and Johnnie Lindsey, who, with the CIU's assistance, was released from
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Kimberly ThorpeSaid Judge Carter Thompson to Jerry Lee Evans, "It's the court's hope that your next 23 years are happier than the past 23 years."After spending 23 years in a prison cell for a crime he did not commit, Jerry
Lee Evans's first order of business is a Big Mac from McDonald's. So said the man who, at a little after 2 p.m. today, was welcomed back to the free world by Judge Carter Thompson in Criminal District Court No. 5, which was packed with attorneys, family members, reporters and
Photos by Kimberly ThorpeClaude Simmons and Christopher Shun Scott outside the House of Blues, shortly after their release from prison today. Check out more photos here in our slide show.The courtroom was filled with tears, then cheers: Two men who spent 12 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit went free today. And while Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins believes this a defining moment for his office and a turning point for Dallas County, 54-year-old Claude Simmons Jr. an
