Texas court exonerates man who spent nearly 20 years on death row for 1977 murder ...Middle East

By Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — After nearly 47 years, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals this week exonerated Kerry Max Cook for the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards, declaring him innocent of a crime for which he spent nearly 20 years on death row. “This case is riddled with allegations of State misconduct that warrant setting aside Applicant’s conviction,” Judge Bert Richardson wrote in the court’s opinion delivered Wednesday, which said evidence favorable to Cook was withheld and that some of the evidence presented in his first trial in 1978 was later revealed to be false. “And when it comes to solid support for actual innocence, this case contains it all — uncontroverted Brady viol

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