DNA Frees Texas Man After 27 Years

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Posted: 2008-04-29 12:52:38
Filed Under: Top News
DALLAS -- A man who spent more than 27 years in Texas prisons for a murder he didn't commit is free thanks to DNA test results that clear him of a 1980 murder.

James Lee Woodard walked free Tuesday.

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His time behind bars was the longest of any wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate exonerated by DNA tests.

DNA testing has now exonerated 31 people wrongfully convicted in Texas, more than in any other state.

The Innocence Project, a New York-based legal center that specializes in overturning wrongful convictions, says Woodard is the 18th person in Dallas County to have his conviction cast aside. That's the most of any county nationally.

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