Commission Begins Study of Wrongful Convictions

[TexasTowelie]

Timothy Cole

Richard Miles was 19 years old when Dallas police officers picked him up, placed him in the back of a squad car and drove him to the scene of a shooting, where an eyewitness identified him as the man who had killed a driver and severely injured his passenger.

Miles denied it. He detailed his whereabouts the night of May 16, 1994. But Miles matched the description of a man who fled the scene, according to the same witness. He'd end up spending more than a decade in prison.

Miles told that story Thursday, during the Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission’s first meeting.

“I was merely walking home,” he said, “and my life completely changed.”

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