When Sonia Cacy walked out of prison after
serving six years of a
99-year sentence for murder, she told reporters that those were just
her first steps toward freedom. To be truly free, she told the San
Antonio Express-News in 1998, she wanted her name cleared. She wanted
to be exonerated of a crime that many experts say she did not
commit. On September 29, 2010, at a news conference in Dallas, the
Innocence Project of Texas asked the Texas Forensic Science Commission
to begin a process the
nonprofit organization hopes will lead to Cacy’s exoneration — and,
potentially, to an overhaul in the use of forensic science in criminal
cases.
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