74-year-old man required to register as a sex offender was wrongly convicted in 1982
Prosecutors withheld evidence that pointed to another suspect in the sexual assaults of two children, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.
Nearly 40 years after Mallory Vernon Nicholson’s trial, a Dallas County district court judge has agreed with prosecutors and defense lawyers that his convictions for burglary and aggravated sexual abuse of a child should be overturned.
Prosecutors in Nicholson’s 1982 trial failed to disclose reports from detectives and a doctor who evaluated the two victims that identified another suspect, according to court records signed last week by Criminal District Court 7 Judge Chika Anyiam.
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It is always uplifting to hear of a case overturned after one lives under the long arm of the law for years. There is always the possibility of recovering monetary losses but unfortunately ‘life’ cannot be returned. Lost life is lost life and the legal system does not feel or care about the pain.
There needs to be consequences for with holding evidence instead of being able to do such and go on to being the VP of the US.
Absolutely, there is a long history of successful lawsuits by those wrongfully convicted. However, I believe there are caps to the amount in some states.
If only there were Criminal consequences to their actions! But it’s like getting an attorney to sue another attorney, incestuous relationships.
@Greig, Exactly.
Not one peep about charging anyone on the prosecution.
God forbid we go after one of our own.
Not one mention.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance- that principle is “contempt prior to investigation”
Herbert Spencer
When I went to court my court appointed attorney told me that 20% of convictions are innocent of what there. Charged with. He said that to assure me that to plea was by far the best thing to do. Whether they charge the right person or the wrong one , to them it doesn’t matter. They can then say case closed and go on with other things. It’s the easy way out, so if they even suspect you they will manipulate so called witnesses to identify you and what happened to get the answer they want. I know it happened to me. I would love to go back to court with what I know now, but that is close to impossible unless you have outside help. So what does that say for this great US of A.
DavidM
So many of us got screwed even with paid lawyers. We need to start a new fund raising effort to buy a flux Capacitor so we all can go back in time and make things right.
Not in court, go back and fix whatever we were accused of in the first place.
In today’s justice system wrongful conviction doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is getting a conviction and adding names to the roles to justify probation and law enforcement income. Today’s ‘scarlet letter’ is just as wrong as it was during our nation’s founding period…but that is what happens when we are controlled by politicians to whom the Constitution is only a ‘road block’ to their agenda.
Shows how far the Gestapo will go to try and keep someone on the registry. Would hate to lose a few Goverment dollars over someone restoring their lives huh?