For the past few months, I have received near daily letters from Ronnie Turner, a Black man in his late 50s who claims that he was wrongfully convicted of aggravated robbery of a Fort Worth convenience store 18 years ago. The dozens of letters and large envelopes that greeted me every day as I returned from work were
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AUSTIN, Texas (CN) More than a dozen Texans have been convicted based on the false testimony of jailhouse informants. Agreeing on the need for a safeguard against perjured testimony of opportunistic prisoners, the Texas House passed a bill Tuesday that will task judges with vetting their credibility in pretrial hearings.
John Nolley thought there was no way a jury would convict after him Tarrant County prosecutors charged him for the murder of his friend Sharon McLane, who was found with multiple stab wounds in her apartment in the Fort Worth suburb Bedford.