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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guarding Death's Door | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guarding Death's Door | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Alexander C. Hoagland, CLASS OF 1950 | Title: Veteran Tinge Invades Harvard Yard | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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