News Source: The Dallas Morning News
| about 1 month ago
Simmons and Scott said they probably wouldn't have been in the courtroom Friday to bask in the cheers, applause and pats on the back from friends and relatives if not for Ellis and other students from the University of Texas at Arlington's little-...
News Source: Austin America-Statesman/Texas Longhorns
| about 1 month ago
Two Dallas men, freed Friday after serving 12½ years in prison for a murder they did not commit, are the first inmates to be exonerated with help from the University of Texas Center for Actual Innocence. Applause filled the Dallas courtroom as...
News Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram
| about 1 month ago
A packed Dallas County courtroom erupted in joyous shouts and applause Friday as two men wrongly convicted of capital murder 12 years ago were set free. Claude Simmons Jr., 54, and Christopher Scott, 39, had been serving life sentences for the 1997...
News Source: Houston Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
Two men wrongly convicted of capital murder 12 years ago were expected to be free again today. Claude Simmons Jr., 54, and Christopher Scott, 39, received life sentences in the 1997 murder of Alfonso Aguilar. Another man has now confessed to the...