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Justice Dept., FBI to review use of forensic evidence in thousands of cases
Justice Dept., FBI to review use of forensic evidence in thousands of cases <script type="mce-mce-mce-mce-text/javascript"></script> <script type="mce-mce-mce-mce-text/javascript"></script> <script type="mce-mce-mce-mce-text/javascript"></script> Kirk Odom: "Will my name be cleared?" Santae Tribble: "I'm grateful for DNA" How much science is in forensic science? By Spencer S. Hsu , Published: July 10 The Washington Post The Justice Department and the FBI...
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Didn't the FBI close down their Civil Rights Crimes unit? Ah huh? I really hope that Eric Holder would have enough sense to re-open this unit and arrest these criminals.
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Black Males Still Need A "Plantation Pass" To Be In New York City
Judge lets NYPD resume stop-and-frisks by Larry Neumeister, Associated Press | January 23, 2013 at 1:36 PM Rev. Al Sharpton, center, walks with thousands along Fifth Avenue, during a silent march to end the "stop-and-frisk" program in New York. The New York City Council Public Safety Committee will hear proposals to impose new requirements for police “stop-and-frisk" encounters, a strategy of detaining and sometimes searching anyone officers deem suspicious, but critics argue the practice is...
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Member of Central Park Five Ask Terrifying Question About Donald Trump’s Involvement in Their Conviction
Member of Central Park Five Ask Terrifying Question About Donald Trump’s Involvement in Their Conviction February 18, 2016 | Posted by A Moore Tagged With: 2016 Election , central park five , donald trump , Donald Trump Racism
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Convictions Vacated Against 3 In 1991 Dixmoor Rape, Murder
Convictions Vacated Against 3 In 1991 Dixmoor Rape, Murder SOPHIA TAREEN 11/ 3/11 06:04 PM ET Undated photos provided Nov. 3, 2011 by the Illinois Department of Corrections show inmate James Harden (left) Jonathan Barr (center) and Robert Taylor. On Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, Cook County prosecutors vacated the rape and murder convictions of Harden and two other men for the 1991 death of a 14-year-old suburban Chicago girl after DNA linked another person to the crime. Five men are serving...
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North Carolina Judge Sets Brothers Free from Prison, One on Death Row, Using DNA Evidence
North Carolina Judge Sets Brothers Free from Prison, One on Death Row, Using DNA Evidence September 3, 2014 | Posted by Nick Chiles Tagged With: Henry Lee McCollum , leon brown , murder of sabrina buie , North Carolina , roscoe artis , Superior Court Judge Douglas B. Sasser McCollum at hearing For the first time in 30 years, North Carolina brothers Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown, who were convicted of rape and murder in 1984, may get to sleep in their own beds tonight, as Superior Court...
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Study: 4.1% of death sentences bogus
Meteor Blades Follow RSS Daily Kos staff Profile Diaries (list) Stream TUE APR 29, 2014 AT 11:21 AM PDT Study: 4.1% of death sentences bogus by Meteor Blades Follow attribution: Georgia Dept. of Corrections A groundbreaking study in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes from statistical analysis that if all inmates sentenced to death remained on death row indefinitely, 4.1 percent would eventually be exonerated. Only 1.6 percent have actually been...
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Sign this petition: Free Davontae Sanford, sentenced to 39 years for a crime someone else has confessed to
Sign this petition Petitioning Michigan Governor and 1 other Free Davontae Sanford, sentenced to 39 years for a crime someone else has confessed to. Sam Kaspick Brooklyn, NY Davontae Sanford has been in prison for nearly nine years for a crime he did not commit. In 2007, Sanford, a partially blind, developmentally disabled 14-year-old child, was interrogated by police after four people were murdered on Runyon Street in his neighborhood. He was questioned twice without the presence of his...
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Prosecutor Mosby Reopens Case That Leads to Release of Innocent Baltimore Man Who Spent 17 Years in Prison
Prosecutor Mosby Reopens Case That Leads to Release of Innocent Baltimore Man Who Spent 17 Years in Prison May 13, 2016 | Posted by Ricky Riley Tagged With: 16-year-old Baltimore girl , Malcolm Bryant , Michelle Nethercott , University of Baltimore Innocence Project A man wrongfully convicted of murdering a 16-year-old Baltimore girl in 1998 was exonerated Wednesday because of new DNA evidence. According to a report by Baltimore’s WBALTV, Malcolm Bryant was freed because the University of...
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Black August: Beyond 34 Years of Resistance
Black August: Beyond 34 Years of Resistance August 12, 2013 | Filed under: Featured , Headlines | Posted by: Editorial_Staff 8 Seventeen-year-old Jonathan Jackson – his beloved big brother George called him Man-child – disarms a guard during the Marin County Courthouse Slave Rebellion on Aug. 7, 1970. AFRICANGLOBE – When the concept of Black August manifested in 1979, many thought it was simply a focus group protest growing out of the avoidable death of Khatari Gaulden on Aug. 1, 1978, in...
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And in 2005, Arnold Schwarzenegger executed Stanley “Tookie” Williams at San Quentin. The ex-Governor of California, a proud Republican, incidentally also the son of a Nazi, said he would not commute the death sentence to life imprisonment, citing that Williams dedicated his 1998 book "Life in Prison" to, among others, George Jackson! For Schwarzenegger the executor, this meant “that Williams is not reformed and that he still sees violence and lawlessness as a legitimate means to address...
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In the past I posted information on this board about "Tookie" Williams. Of course, his plea was not that well received by many on this board who have been witnesses to the destruction gang violence and gang killings. I think his path of destruction over shadowed his redemption in the minds of so many of us who [naturally] are sick and disgusted with what gang violence and drug dealing has did to African America and the Black image in America. I, myself was rooting for him, because I believe...
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Re: Study: 4.1% of death sentences bogus
People might have 100 fancy names for their killing, but if they kill anything that breathes, born or unborn, they're a killer/murderer. It's just that some pay a penalty for their killing while others walk away SCOTT FREE!!!!! However the killing is done/accomplished, there will be a PRICE TO PAY!!!!! In life, one doesn't get away with a damn thing, whether one thinks so or not.
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Re: Study: 4.1% of death sentences bogus
Actually, I would wager that it's really higher than 4.1% and they are probably not even factoring in those who have been put to death long ago or who has not been able to either prove their innocence or go through the appeals process at all.
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Who gave the damn WHITE MAN the POWER to KILL/MURDER people that KILL/MURDER? NO ONE KILLS/MURDERS like the damn WHITE MAN!! Sh!t, he's SLAUGHTERER/MURDERER personified!!!!!!! He's NO SUPREME BEING, no matter how much he PREACHES that sh!t!!!!!!! Black people are the people that suffer his WRATH!!!!! Watch about 3 hours of "The Dumb Things People Do", and you'll find that the WHITE MAN is nothing more than a SEVERE BUTT PROTRUSION, the self-controller of everyone's LIFE!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Black Males Still Need A "Plantation Pass" To Be In New York City
I have a question How come there is NO demonstrations in OUR community to STOP black on black crime? Why are leaders like Sharpton and Jackson soooooooo bold with po po but scared to face JEROME? I grow tired of these men picking and choosing what they will protest while our children continue to commit self-genocide. And this topic is not different or irrelevant to the above article. I'm just TIRED of seeing these men march for what it appears to me publicity purposes only, Which causes me...
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But, Sharpton has marched against Black on Black crime, plenty of times. And there are people protesting, marching, and having candlelight vigils in Black communities across this nation, but, they do not get any press, at least any beyond the local new station. Of course there is not enough and many often do not have a turn-out of thousands of people. Sharpton is getting old and he's been sick, and I'm sure that he now has to pick his battles. So, my disappointment lies within the countless...
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I hear ya my sista. And I agree with you that there are not enough protesting....but! Sharpton is NOT that old. He is still breathing. As a matter of fact he is a young man compared to elderly folks who risked their lives during the civil rights movement to make a change. You are probably right my sista there isn't adequate press coverage...but! Sharpton, Jackson and others KNOW folks. They have been around long enough to have a list of folks with influence, money and power. To me it seems...
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"Stop and Frisk": It is unconstitutional, period. It is a violation of a person's Civil Rights. It is Racial Profiling. It is Police Intimidation. It is Abuse of Authority. It is Abuse of Power. It is Abuse of Process. It is jim-crow Tactics. It is Molestation. It is a form of Rape.
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“I have a question...How come there is NO demonstrations in OUR community to STOP black on black crime? Why are leaders like Sharpton and Jackson soooooooo bold with po po but scared to face JEROME? I grow tired of these men picking and choosing what they will protest while our children continue to commit self-genocide.” Excellent question! I have yet to her an intelligent response or answer to this particular type of question. Negroes rant and rave about the killing of a black person by a...
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Why is it that Black people, particularly African Americans, are the only people in America or the world for that matter, that are expected to allow any and every damn racist abuse from a society just because there are also some Black people that are violent or commit crimes or even murder against other Black people? Does anyone think that Native Americans should never complain or protest or rally against any racism or racist abuse or police brutality just because there are also Native...
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Sista Sunnubian wrote: Does anyone think that Native Americans should never complain or protest or rally against any racism or racist abuse or police brutality just because there are also Native Americans that commit violence against other Native Americans? No of course not. Should the Japanese Americans have turned down the reparations monies they received because some Japanese Americans commit violence against other Japanese Americans or because some belong to Asian gangs older than this...
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Originally Posted by Kocolicious: Sista Sunnubian wrote: Does anyone think that Native Americans should never complain or protest or rally against any racism or racist abuse or police brutality just because there are also Native Americans that commit violence against other Native Americans? No of course not. Should the Japanese Americans have turned down the reparations monies they received because some Japanese Americans commit violence against other Japanese Americans or because some...
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You're exactly right my sista. I think we are saying the same thing but expressing it a tad differently. I guess what I am attempting to say is the thing about being fully human beings from these groups is that they could directly point at who they are in terms of being able to say with clarity "this is where I derived from." They were able to do that by bringing their culture and customs with them regardless of what massa said about them. They had that proof when they cooked their meals and...
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" And it was on record in America as law that we as black people were not considered fully humans." ______________________________________________________________________ This is something that people continue to say that is not really true. The "3/5 Compromise" is where slave holding states were granted the right to count 3/5 of their slave population when apportioning the number of a state's representatives in Congress. It never mentioned anything about the humanity of Black people/the...
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Originally Posted by sunnubian: " And it was on record in America as law that we as black people were not considered fully humans." ______________________________________________________________________ This is something that people continue to say that is not really true. The "3/5 Compromise" is where slave holding states were granted the right to count 3/5 of their slave population when apportioning the number of a state's representatives in Congress. It never mentioned anything about the...
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Well...I'm not referring to the taxes in the 3/5 Compromise. In fact, I never mentioned this. Sorry ...I should have been more clearer. I am specifically referring to the slave codes which were laws that estabished the status of slaves, denying them basic rights and classying them as the property i.e. chattel [not human] belonging to slaveowners. And socially, the term 3/5 human in regards to slavery became a staple in the language for slavery in America...also the one-drop rule was too a...
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All that history and stuff aside, what can we do to stop police harrassment in NYC. The major problem that I see with NYC is that they are very closely affiliated with federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and CIA and I suspect that they get hefty funding from the feds. I feel that because of this they get carte blanche to harass black people period.
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Originally Posted by Yemaya: All that history and stuff aside, what can we do to stop police harrassment in NYC. The major problem that I see with NYC is that they are very closely affiliated with federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and CIA and I suspect that they get hefty funding from the feds. I feel that because of this they get carte blanche to harass black people period. Black people in New York, and the rest of America are going to have to work hard at changing laws that...
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Take back our community. Get to know your neighbors. Teach our children to respect and honor each other. Display dignity and intergity among black adults tightly. Keep our neigbhorhood CLEAN and clear of clutter [I'm sure there are a lot of blackfolks unemployed and can use their free time to volunteer to improve the environment in which they live in(make war against the vermin and roach infestations that threatens our health]. Have and show PRIDE in who you are where you are. Have town...
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One of the problems with racist police activities like stop and frisk is that these tactics exclude people like this ... http://www.reuters.com/article...dUSBRE87N0M220120824 the residents of NYC should march on to the police headquarters and demand that white males be included in the Stop and Frisk policy...this could prevent the next white wacko from doing things like this.
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Re: Prosecutor Mosby Reopens Case That Leads to Release of Innocent Baltimore Man Who Spent 17 Years in Prison
why does it seem like all the long term innocent exonerated people are Black? I think it's getting to be about one or two a month. Maybe the system needs to be reviewed. Imagine if if the Trans gendered community had to suffer like this....I bet the Black President wouldn't allow this to continue to happen to them.
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Re: Prosecutor Mosby Reopens Case That Leads to Release of Innocent Baltimore Man Who Spent 17 Years in Prison
Hell, if they would put a stop to dirty and/or racist prosecutors' fighting against, and judges denying their pleas and appeals, there would be more than "one or two a month" . There really needs to be an over-site Court or Commission that does forensic research on each and every sentence involving life in prison and/or the death penalty.
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Re: Sign this petition: Free Davontae Sanford, sentenced to 39 years for a crime someone else has confessed to
Attention all you young black fellas!!!!!!!!! Once you're gotten your black ass will be forgotten. Do all this crazy shit, and tell all your loved ones good bye. You'll be the White man's BITCH from whatever to whenever and your momma's not going to be able to help you. Think, before you royally fuck up to possibly 43 years of SOLITARY CONFINEMENT in a NASTY CAGE. YT doesn't do that to his cousins the dogs.
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Re: Man Says He Was Pulled Over by Police and Woke Up Like This
White men HATE black men!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Norland: White men HATE black men!!!!!!! Yet, a large percentage of Black men are more worried about whether or not Black women are loud or "angry", etc., etc.
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Re: Man Says He Was Pulled Over by Police and Woke Up Like This
I don't for the life of me know how the hell Black men salivate over the White man's seed. Fuck, if you need something white so badly try buying some white sneakers, a white dog (there's similarities), some white drawers. Piss that chick off, she calls y a nigger, then what?? You laugh??? I truly wish the White man had gone anywhere other than Africa to enslave. Every time we look at a white person, we all should go into immediate CONVULSIONS. WHITE SHOCK!!!!!!!
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Re: Man Says He Was Pulled Over by Police and Woke Up Like This
He lives in Kentucky... With a Black population less than the total population percentage wise of Blacks in the USA... The **** is wrong with him? I am surprised he lasted this long. Wouldn't catch me in Kentucky. I rather be in Chicago. I don't believe in living in a non Black majority place... Not taking my chances with White folks, White people are evil towards non Whites.
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I don't know why they're so evil towards non-whites. They're the best of all humanity, the best looking, have all the best, the smartest, the richest. They're the BEST OF ALL LIFE has to offer. It seems to me they'd just bask all the time in their wonderfulness and superiority-ness. When you're the BEST be the BEST you can be. Hold on to your heads.
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Originally Posted by Norland: I don't know why they're so evil towards non-whites. They're the best of all humanity, the best looking, have all the best, the smartest, the richest. They're the BEST OF ALL LIFE has to offer. It seems to me they'd just bask all the time in their wonderfulness and superiority-ness. When you're the BEST be the BEST you can be. Hold on to your heads. I think because they are the minority and they used to fighting with other Europeans all the time, then one day...
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Re: Lawsuit Filed Against Ferguson For Sending Mostly Black Residents to Inhumane Treatment in Debtors’ Prison Because of Traffic Tickets
This type of lawsuit should be filed in every city and county in America. Traffic tickets and probation as a revenue generating scheme has created a whole new class of criminals!
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Re: Lawsuit Filed Against Ferguson For Sending Mostly Black Residents to Inhumane Treatment in Debtors’ Prison Because of Traffic Tickets
Wherever there's an African, dollar bills flash in the White man's eyes. No different than the Slave Auctions. How can you pay anything locked up in a cage?? They lock up animals and us in cages. They're telling us something and have been since the 'cestors stepped off the boat.
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Re: For Black People, Fingerprinting Is a Double-Edged Sword, Sweeping Up the Innocent
White folks are going to sit on our behinds as long as we're in this country. They're the domineering race and we're caught in their mix. They do to us whatever they want; nothing's going to happen to them, we take all the torture like champs, so it is what it is. We're born with them and we'll die either by them or with them or by the hands of our own. This dark skin, wooly hair has fucked them up and us too. What are we going to do? Take it like we've been taking it since 1619; moaning and...
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FBI and Justice Dept. Admit Using Flawed Forensic Evidence for Decades, Putting Thousands of Convictions In Doubt
April 20, 2015 | Posted by Nick Chiles Tagged With: FBI , fbi crime lab mistakes , flawed forensic testimony , innocence project , Justice Department , National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , peter neufeld The revelation that FBI experts gave flawed forensic testimony in a vast number of criminal cases over decades has finally been acknowledged by the Justice Department and the FBI, which means the criminal justice system will now have to decide what to do about thousands of cases...
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For Black People, Fingerprinting Is a Double-Edged Sword, Sweeping Up the Innocent
For Black People, Fingerprinting Is a Double-Edged Sword, Sweeping Up the Innocent April 10, 2016 | Posted by David Love Tagged With: black man arrested , black people arrested at higher rates , criminal justice system , Fingerprinting , fingerprinting public housing residents For African-Americans, fingerprinting can serve as a double-edged sword. Any efforts that employ fingerprinting as a means of providing security and safety may have good intentions on the surface. However, as the most...
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Man Says He Was Pulled Over by Police and Woke Up Like This
Man Says He Was Pulled Over by Police and Woke Up Like This September 9, 2014 Black Crime & Incarceration , Black News , featured , ybw 2 A Kentucky man says the gruesome pictures of his face stem from excessive force used by police during a traffic stop. Yakie Armstrong tells WDRB that he has filed a lawsuit against the Shively Police Department over the incident . “When I got out the car , ‘he said get back in the car,” saidArmstrong. “Next thing I know, I am waking up in the hospital...
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Lawsuit Filed Against Ferguson For Sending Mostly Black Residents to Inhumane Treatment in Debtors’ Prison Because of Traffic Tickets
Lawsuit Filed Against Ferguson For Sending Mostly Black Residents to Inhumane Treatment in Debtors’ Prison Because of Traffic Tickets February 9, 2015 | Posted by Nick Chiles Tagged With: debtors' prison , ferguson lawsuit , jailed for traffic tickets , jailing people for not paying fines , jennings lawsuit Source: Twitter The accusations that Ferguson and other towns in St. Louis County have created a revenue-collection system that is jailing large numbers of Black residents for failing to...
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Justice Department Weighs In On NYC ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Case
Justice Department Weighs In On NYC ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Case Jun 13, 2013 By Associated Press Share Nation Justice Department Weighs In On NYC ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Case NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department has treaded carefully into the debate over the New York Police Department’s stop, question and frisk policy, telling a federal judge that it strongly endorses an independent monitor to oversee changes should she decide civil rights violations have occurred. Lawyers for the Justice Department...
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The Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
The Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Gilbert King Speaker: Gilbert King Date: September 4, 2013 Time: 11:00 AM Description Gilbert King has written about Supreme Court history and the death penalty for The New York Times and The Washington Post, and is a featured contributor to Smithsonian magazine's history blog, “Past Imperfect,” as well as The Washington Post 's “The Root.” His book, The Execution of Willie Francis , was published in...
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Texas Man Released After Three Decades
<script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"></script> Rickey Dale Wyatt Released After 31 Years (1/4/2012) RSS Feed Innocence Blog Rickey Dale Wyatt Released After 31 Years Posted: January 4, 2012 12:00 pm (Photo: Rickey Dale Wyatt, before his wrongful conviction) Innocence Project client Rickey Dale Wyatt will be released in Dallas, Texas, today after spending 31 years in prison for a rape that he didn’t commit. The Dallas County...