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...just as the Saldana case was wrapping up, Earle learned that his office had mistakenly prosecuted two men for the 1988 murder of Nancy DePriest, a 20-year-old mother killed at the Pizza Hut where she worked. To Earle, it had seemed a horrific but fairly straightforward case: not long after the murder, a man named Christopher Ochoa, who worked at another Austin Pizza Hut, signed an intricately detailed confession. Ochoa said that he and a co-worker, Richard Danziger, had raped DePriest and that Ochoa then shot her in the head. The confession said the two had sexually...
...office didn't seek the death penalty; the two were sentenced to life in prison. But in 1996 another Texas inmate, Achim Marino, started writing letters--to police, to the Austin American-Statesman, to Governor George W. Bush and eventually to the D.A.'s office--saying he had killed DePriest. Few believed him until 2000, when DNA tests revealed that Marino was in fact the sole killer...
...those grinding practice sessions in the late afternoon behind the stadium at Soldiers Field, I also met Oscar dePriest and Frank Jones, two of the four Negroes--as some said then--out of a class...
Cummings said officials at his school have notcontacted him about the matter. But CraigDePriest, the school principal, told localnewspapers that Failoni was being stripped ofhis title as activities director over theincident. DePriest could not be reached forcomment yesterday...
Uniformed ROTC students first reappeared on campus in late 1975, when Steven A. Peck '79, Charles DePriest '77 and Theodore S. Block '77 petitioned the Faculty to permit them to crossregister at MIT's ROTC program. Since the ROTC courses would be non-credit, the three undergraduates wished to pursue their military training as an extracurricular activity, and thus bypass the academic objections lodged against ROTC...