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Randall Dale Adams
Randall Dale Adams (December 17, 1948October 30, 2010〔) was a man who was wrongly convicted of murdering police officer Robert W. Wood and was subsequently sentenced to death. He served more than 12 years in prison and some of that time on death row. His death sentence was reduced through appeal to the United States Supreme Court, and eight years later he was released when evidence was uncovered to prove his innocence.
His case is profiled in the 1988 documentary film ''The Thin Blue Line'', and the evidence presented in the film had a significant impact on obtaining his release.
==Exoneration==
In 1989, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in ''Ex parte Adams''〔768 S.W.2d 281 (Tex. Ct. Crim. App. 1989) (''en banc''), at ().〕 overturned Adams' conviction on the grounds of malfeasance by the prosecutor Douglas D. Mulder and inconsistencies in the testimony of a key witness, Emily Miller. The appeals court found that prosecutor Mulder withheld a statement by Emily Miller to the police that cast doubt on her credibility and also allowed her to give perjured testimony. Further, the court found that after Adams' attorney discovered the statement late in Adams' trial, Mulder falsely told the court that he did not know the witness's whereabouts. The case remained in limbo. In 1981, Mulder returned to practice private law in Dallas, and the new prosecution then dropped charges in 1989. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said (and Adams agreed) that "conviction was unfair mainly because of prosecutor Doug Mulder." Adams later worked as an anti-death penalty activist.
Adams wrote a book about his story, ''Adams V. Texas'', which was published in June 1992.〔http://www.amazon.com/Adams-V-Texas-Randall/dp/0312927789/〕
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