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Real perpetrator identified in Dallas case
Posted: January 31, 2008 2:19 pm
Entre Nax Karage was exonerated through DNA testing in 2005 after serving more than six years in a Texas prison for a murder he didn’t commit. It was previously believed that the real perpetrator in the crime had died, but prosecutors said Wednesday that was a mistake. Another man has been charged in the crime after DNA from the crime scene matched his profile. Karage, now 38, was convicted in 1997 of killing his then-girlfriend in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison.
Keith Jordan, who is now charged in the case, is currently in a Texas prison after his convictions in 1997 for aggravated sexual assault of a child and aggravated kidnapping.
Read the full story here. (Dallas Morning News, 01/31/2008)
Karage is one of 16 men in Dallas County to be cleared of wrongful convictions by DNA evidence. Yesterday, prosecutors announced that the DNA testing that recently proved the innocence of Steven Phillips has identified the real perpetrator in the case, a man who died ten years ago. Phillips was released on parole in December after he was wrongfully convicted in 1984 of a series of rapes he didn’t commit. Read more about his case here.
Tags: Texas, Entre Nax Karage
The Texas Exonerated
Posted: October 27, 2008 4:05 pm
A feature in this month’s Texas Monthly profiles 37 people cleared with DNA testing after serving a combined 525 years in prison.
The first thing you notice is the eyes—they all have the same look in them, the look of men accustomed to waking up every morning in a prison cell. These 37 men spent years, and in some cases decades, staring through bars at a world that believed they were guilty of terrible crimes. But they weren’t. Each was convicted of doing something he did not do. It’s hard to characterize the look in their eyes. There’s anger, obviously, and pride at having survived hell, but there’s also hurt, and a question: “Why me?”Visit the Texas Monthly website for video of a photoshoot with 21 exonerees and audio slideshows telling the stories of more than a dozen.
The short answer is simple: People make mistakes. Most of these cases share a common story line: A woman, usually a traumatized rape victim, wrongly identifies her attacker. Sometimes her testimony is backed by rudimentary serology tests. Sometimes the cases are pushed too hard by aggressive police officers or prosecutors.
Tags: James Giles, Entre Nax Karage, Carlos Lavernia, Brandon Moon, Christopher Ochoa, Anthony Robinson, Ronald Taylor, Patrick Waller, James Waller, Gregory Wallis
The Importance of Expunging Wrongful Convictions
Posted: March 25, 2009 6:11 pm
Entre Nax Karage served more than six years in Texas prison for a murder he didn’t commit before DNA testing proved his innocence in 2005. Unfortunately, he’s still paying the price for the injustice.
According to court papers filed recently by Karage, he was hired in April 2008 by Wackenhut to work as a security guard at a bank branch. He says that he was then fired two months later, however, after an online background check turned up the wrongful murder convictions which should have been removed from his record.
Criminal record databases are often outdated and could include information on convictions that have been overturned by DNA testing or other evidence. The Imperative Blog, which follows news about employment-related background checks, asks today if “we need an Innocence Project for employment applicants.”
Ensuring that a criminal record has truly been expunged is one of the struggles facing the exonerated upon release from prison. For more on life after exoneration, and today’s update on exoneree compensation efforts around the country, click here.
Tags: Entre Nax Karage