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Breaking News: Ronnie Taylor released in Houston
Posted: October 9, 2007 3:20 pm
Ronnie Taylor was released from a Houston courtroom this morning, a free man for the first time in 14 years. DNA tests have now shown that Taylor was wrongfully convicted of a rape based on eyewitness misidentification and crime lab errors.
Today’s press on the case:
Associated Press: Texas man cleared on rape charges ordered released from prison on $10 bond
Read the Innocence Project press release on the case.
In an op-ed piece in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle, Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck joined with Texas State Senators John Whitmore and Rodney Ellis (the chairman of the Innocence Project Board of Directors) to outline a plan for testing to proceed in these cases before any injustice continues to stand. Read the op-ed here.