''Dallas DNA'' is an American television program that premiered on April 28, 2009, on the Investigation Discovery cable channel. It documents the cooperation of the Dallas County, Texas District Attorney's Office with several law school innocence programs and their revue of over 400 cases. The new division, the Conviction Integrity Unit, re-investigates past convictions where DNA testing may either exonerate or confirm convictions of those now serving time in Texas prisons.
Cast
The cast includes real-life officials in their daily work, including but not limited to:
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Craig Watkins
Craig Marcus Watkins (born November 16, 1967) is an American lawyer. He was the district attorney for the Dallas County, Texas in the United States from 2007 to 2015. He became the first elected African American district attorney in Texas afte ...
, District Attorney
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Terri Moore
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, 1st Assistant D.A.
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Mike Ware, Special Fields Bureau Chief and Chief of the CIU.
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Jena Parker
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, Paralegal
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James Hammond, Investigator
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Michelle Moore
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, Public Defender's Office – DNA Attorney.
*Other judges, attorneys, investigators, witnesses, family, and friends of both the accused and of the victims of the crimes.
See also
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List of miscarriage of justice cases
This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases. This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished ...
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Overturned convictions in the United States
This is a list of notable overturned convictions in the United States.
Alabama
Blount County
* Bill Wilson was convicted of the 1912 murder of his wife and child and sentenced to life in prison. He was exonerated in 1918 when they were both ...
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List of wrongful convictions in the United States
This list of wrongful convictions in the United States includes people who have been legally exonerated, including people whose convictions have been overturned or vacated, and who have not been retried because the charges were dismissed by the s ...
External links
''Dallas DNA'' official website
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Texas District and County Attorneys Association
2009 American television series debuts
Criminal justice
Overturned convictions in the United States
Investigation Discovery original programming
Television shows set in Dallas
2009 American television series endings