Court of Criminal Appeals officially exonerates man in Dallas murder case
By JENNIFER EMILY
Dallas Morning News Staff Writer
Published: 15 February 2012 09:21 PM
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday that a man convicted of a Dallas murder and an attempted murder is “actually innocent” of the crimes.
Richard Miles was released from prison in October 2009 and has been waiting since then for the court to officially clear him.
Miles said Wednesday that the ruling came just after he stopped checking the court’s decisions every week to see if his case was among them.
“It’s a great day,” said Miles, who reported for work as usual Wednesday at a Dallas hotel, where he serves food. “They said it would happen when I stopped looking.”
The Dallas County district attorney’s office had agreed he was wrongly convicted in 1995 for the May 1994 murder of Deandre Williams and attempted murder of another man. Miles had been sentenced to 40 years for the murder and 20 years for the attempted murder.
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