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Dallas DA on Exonerating Innocents

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Uploaded by on Oct 29, 2007

At a Drum Major Institute for Public Policy panel on preventing the imprisonment of innocent people, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins speaks about being "tough on crime" vs. being smart on crime.

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  • Glad to see Craig in office. it is about time.

  • Mr. Watkins is coming to Birmingham Alabama to do a panel forum with our local D.A. Brandon Falls, Judge Brian Huff, Georgia Innocence Project - Aimee Maxwell, and Attorney Richard Jaffee. SAT APRIL 4 at Miles College. Birmingham ALabma

  • I would guess that if people truly knew how many innocent convictions there were it would literally shock the system and we could no longer keep the status quo. Prosecution has more vested interest in finding people than letting crimes go unsolved, and will juice up evidence and cover up discrepencies and convince themselves they've found the right person every time. The public is fed by a media to be outraged at cruel crimes themselves, but not the state crimes of convicting innocent people.

  • JAMES LEE WOODARD spent 27 years for a rape/murder crime he didn't commit and thankfully DNA exonerated him. They did find the two others that killed the woman. Still it just boils my blood that the prosecutor at that time withheld evidence that could have set him free by a jury. Thankfully Mr. Watkins is doing something about wrongful conviction. I'd say for a man whose life went down the drain for 27 years should be compenstated. Think about no family, job, life, or freedom for 27 YEARS!

  • Mr. Watkins now is the time to step up and prevent the prosecution and wrongful conviction of Lakeith Amir-Sharif (Sharif).

    We are depending on you to do the right thing.

    April 21, 2008 is Sharif's trial date.

  • Mr. Watkins now is the time to step up and prevent the prosecution and wrongful conviction of Lakeith Amir-Sharif (Sharif).

    We are depending on you to do the right thing.

    April 21, 2008 is Sharif's trial date.

  • Mr. Watkins now is the time to step up and prevent the prosecution and wrongful conviction of Lakeith Amir-Sharif (Sharif).

    We are depending on you to do the right thing.

    April 21, 2008 is Sharif's trial date.

  • I'm glad that this man takes his job serious and has helped deliver true justice to people like Charles Chatman and others who have been wrongly convicted of crimes they had nothing to do with.

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