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10 Jun 2012, 3:00 pm
His brother, Cory Sessions, helped sway the Lubbock City Council to support the memorial to his brother, who died imprisoned in 1999 after being wrongfully convicted in the 1986 sexual assault of a fellow Tech student. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 3:54 am
Cole's half-brother, Cory Session, suggested a less costly cenotaph might be to rename the portion of Texas Avenue in front of the courthouse where Cole was convicted after him, though he reminded them, “I would say to any of the council members that might bring up the cost, there is no greater than the cost that has been paid by my mother and my family; that’s immeasurable. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 2:30 pm
Above: Ruby Session and her son Cory Session, family to the late Tim Cole. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 6:24 am
"We finally have something visual that people can see to remember Tim," Cory Session, Cole's brother, told Reuters. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 5:41 pm
Their stories help ground such events - which could be dry and technocratic, if the cops had their way - in the real-world consequences that befall when the systems established to protect against false convictions fail to filter out erroneous testimony.Perhaps even more dramatic was testimony from the very first witness, Michele Mallin, the rape victim who falsely identified Timothy Cole, along with Cole's half-brother Cory Session (my colleague at the Innocence… [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 7:36 am
Here are the public hearing details if you're interested in attending, either to testify or just to watch: WHAT: Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute (LEMIT) will hold public hearings on its new eyewitness identification policy.WHO: Cory Session, Innocence Project of Texas Policy Director; Rebecca Brown, Innocence Project Senior Policy Advocate… [read post]
2 Oct 2011, 7:08 am
But he also doesn't merit the effusive praise Cory lavished on him in this particular article. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 12:39 pm
Cory Session - brother of Tim Cole, a Fort Worth man who died in prison for a crime he didn't commit - now serves as the policy director for the Innocence Project and supported these bills. [read post]
19 May 2011, 5:06 am
Texas' latest DNA exoneree, Johnny Pinchback, who spent 27 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, was there along with five other exonerees and Tim Cole's half-brother Cory Session to watch the Texas Senate pass two favorable bills: Eyewitness ID reform and innocence compensation legislation that gives exonerees health benefits and will let Anthony Graves receive compensation. [read post]
11 May 2011, 9:08 am
Cole died of an asthma attack in 1999 while serving his sentence. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 1:43 pm
He urged Texas senators to approve the legislation, as did Cory Session, the brother of Timothy Cole, who served 13 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit and died in jail before he could be exonerated. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 8:46 am
And: Cory Session, the brother of Timothy Cole, who died in prison in 1999 and was posthumously exonerated, and for whom the panel studying wrongful convictions was named, warned that without the bill, the criminal justice system will continue to make too many mistakes. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 6:43 pm
We want to make sure there is not another Tim Cole, that not another innocent person has to be in prison a day longer. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 2:36 pm
Nearly a decade later, DNA evidence from the crime posthumously exonerated Cole and implicated another man as the perpetrator. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 11:55 am
Here are a few items I didn't get around to discussing this week that merit Grits readers' attention:Exonerees in the news Just-exonerated Cornelius Dupree and Cory Session, brother of the late Tim Cole, have a joint op ed in the Dallas News titled "Preventing miscarriages of justice. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 7:47 am
"The bias claims that are presented in this case are ridiculous," said Cory Session, brother of Tim Cole, the only Texas inmate to receive a posthumous exoneration and pardon. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 8:29 am
"Cole's brother, Cory Session, said the process was moving along just fine until the family hit a roadblock with the cemetery, which has strict rules about what kind of markers are acceptable and where they can be placed. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 7:50 am
That's the title of an OpEd by Cory Session in today's Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 4:41 am
Kicking off Flawed Forensic Science Week, here's a notable excerpt from an op ed in the Houston Chronicle ("It's time to ban junk science from Texas courtrooms," Oct. 2) from Jeff Blackburn, Gary Udashen and Cory Session (Timothy Cole's half brother) from the Innocence Project of Texas on the need to ferret junk science out of Texas courtrooms and redress wrongful convictions from the past:There are few things more convincing to a jury than scientific… [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 3:27 pm
Ellis is the Innocence Project's Board of Directors Chairman, and Session is the brother of Tim Cole, a Texas man who was posthumously pardoned a decade after he died in prison when DNA evidence proved his innocence.While the work of the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel represents a significant step forward for criminal justice reform in Texas, Ellis and Session write that reforms are still needed, including improving eyewitness identification procedures, mandatory electronic … [read post]
