Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A Cambridge man was arrested at an Adams House party early Saturday morning for disorderly conduct after allegedly harassing a Harvard student and attempting to steal a keg of beer, witnesses said.
The Dallas police interrogated Harris after they heard that he had been boasting to friends about killing a policeman. Nonetheless, when Harris fingered Adams, the police believed him. Within six months, Adams was convicted and sentenced to die. Later Governor William Clements commuted his sentence to life.
Enter Errol Morris. While making a documentary in 1985 about a psychiatrist who testifies in death-penalty cases, the director stumbled across Adams' story. "I was interested enough that I wanted the details," Morris recalls. What he found in the prosecutor's files shocked him. The slain officer's partner...
Perhaps the most chilling part of the movie is Harris' virtual confession to the crime. Harris, who is on death row for a 1985 murder, tells Morris that he is sure Adams is innocent "because I'm the one who knows." At the December hearing, Harris admitted that he was...
The parole board is not scheduled to reconsider Adams' case until December 1990. While he awaits final word on a new trial, Adams remains hopeful. "Eventually, I will win," he says. Meanwhile, Morris' documentary continues to gain attention and praise. The Thin Blue Line has won awards from the New...