Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, prosecutors were determined to keep Adams in jail, discounting Harris' statements as the rantings of a condemned man. (Harris is on death row for a 1985 murder.) But on March 1, an appellate court unanimously threw out Adams' conviction, finding that the state was guilty of suppressing evidence...
If, in one sense, Adams was saved by the media, he is now at risk of becoming their prisoner. Released on $50,000 bond three weeks after the appellate-court ruling, Adams was soon out of his orange prison uniform and into a borrowed shirt and tie, then whisked off...
Waiting in the Columbus airport were about 100 people, including Adams' mother Mildred, a retired supervisor at a home for retarded children, and friends from her Baptist church with yellow ribbons around their necks. Adams plowed through the crowd to hug his mother and then the teary-eyed Morris. At...
The next day Adams' sister threw a party. The family brought deviled eggs and a cake; someone had left seven bags of groceries on the doorstep during the night. Recalling his first postprison meal of chicken chalupas, Adams said, "It felt strange to have the man across from me eating...
Adams, now 40, seems to have made his peace with his jailers, knowing that to pursue revenge could poison his future happiness. He has learned, he says, to "think the worst and hope for the least." Doug Mulder, the former Dallas prosecutor who wronged him, is shielded by law from...