Members of Tim Cole panel stop by his grave site
Posted Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010
By ALEX BRANCH, FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM
FORT WORTH — Members of a panel reviewing flaws in the Texas legal system visited Tarrant County on Thursday to study the district attorney’s much-praised policy of making its case files open to defense attorneys.
Before they left, several members of the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions paid their respects to the man in whose name they pursue change.
Under a heavy, cold rain, they joined Cole’s mother, Ruby Session, and his brother, Cory Session, at Cole’s headstone at Mount Olivet Cemetery in north Fort Worth.
Cole, of Fort Worth, died in prison in 1999 while serving a 25-year sentence for a crime in Lubbock that he did not commit.
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