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Steven Phillips is officially exonerated in Dallas
Posted: October 1, 2008 5:25 pm
This summer, a Dallas court recommend that Steven Phillips’ name be cleared, more than 25 years after he was wrongfully convicted of a string of sex crimes he didn’t commit. Today, Texas’ highest criminal court officially exonerated him.
DNA testing and an extensive investigation by the Innocence Project proved that Phillips did not commit any of the ten sexual assaults he was convicted of in 1982 and 1983. But Phillips has been waiting in legal limbo for today’s decision by the Court of Criminal Appeals, which officially exonerated him by granting writs of habeas corpus in overturning wrongful convictions in several cases.
Phillips is the 221st person exonerated by DNA testing nationwide, and the 16th officially exonerated in Dallas. Five more men in Dallas have been proven innocent by DNA testing, but they are awaiting further legal action before their exonerations are official. With 21 people cleared by DNA, Dallas has seen more exonerations than any other county in the U.S. since 2001.
Read more about his case here.
Read about the other 15 Dallas exonerees here.
Tags: Steven Phillips
Friday Roundup: The First Day and The First Year
Posted: May 29, 2009 3:54 pm
Jerry Lee Evans was freed in Dallas this week after serving 22 years in prison for a crime DNA proves he didn’t commit. Patrick Waller and Steven Phillips, two of the 18 people exonerated by DNA in Dallas before Evans, joined him on Larry King Live Wednesday night. They wrote on King’s blog about their first day of freedom:
Waller: “My first day of freedom was a true breath of fresh air! I actually kissed the ground – after I kissed my mother of course.”
Phillips: “That day I was finally exonerated after 26 years of wrongfully serving time for crimes I didn’t commit – that was a day The Lord made!”
And earlier today we posted about Dean Cage’s first year of freedom. He told the Chicago Tribune this week: “"If I didn't have the support of my family, I don't know what I would have done.”
Meanwhile, Tim Kennedy could be freed in Colorado while awaiting on a new trial for a 1991 murder he has always said he didn’t commit. He was convicted based in part on the FBI’s use of comparative bullet lead analysis (CBLA), a discredited technique discontinued in 2005, which was used to trace a bullet from the crime scene to a box of bullets in his possession.
Kennedy’s case and others are posted on the Just Science Coalition’s news page – visit Just-Science.org for weekly updates on forensic news.
CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix profiled the Arizona Justice Project, a member of the Innocence Network. The project is working to reach out to prisoners whose cases could be wrongful convictions.
New York exoneree Jeffrey Deskovic will speak about his case in New York City on Monday. More information is available on Facebook.
Tags: Steven Phillips, Patrick Waller