D.E. writing from Texas
“To place me at the scene of a crime I was not, corrupt state officials used my own whole yellow sheet of writing paper, taken from my briefcase, and falsely claimed to have found my sheet of paper 90 days after the last person thoroughly examined the victim’s car for all evidence.”
Location
Harris County, TX
Crime of Conviction
Aggravated robbery, murder
Year of Conviction
1994
D.E. was a student at Texas Southern University in the 1980s when he was charged and sentenced to life in prison for a robbery-murder in Houston. He has steadily maintained that he was wrongfully convicted. D.E. claims that he was not at the scene of the crime and that evidence linking him to the crime, a sheet of paper with his fingerprint, was planted in the victim’s car by corrupt state officials and “found” 90 days after the car had already been thoroughly examined. New DNA testing on the victim’s fingernails excluded D.E. as the source. Despite these claims, courts have so far denied his appeals and requests for relief.
Procedural issues
Evidence tampering, preservation of evidence
Counsel
Yes