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From Ed Lavandera
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DALLAS, Texas (CNN) -- The family of Timothy Cole, a Texas man who died in prison nearly a decade ago while serving a sentence for a rape he swore he did not commit, is hoping a court will issue the state's first posthumous exoneration.
Timothy Cole died in prison while serving a sentence for a rape DNA tests show he did not commit.
1 of 2 Cole was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1985 rape of 20-year-old Michele Mallin. He maintained his innocence, but it was not confirmed by DNA until years after his 1999 death, when another inmate confessed to the rape.
"Everybody thinks he died a felon, a hardened criminal," Cole's brother, Cory Session, told CNN. "That's what hurts."
The court hearing on the exoneration began Thursday afternoon, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Mallin, who has spoken publicly about the case, will join Cole's family in the Austin, Texas, courtroom. They want a judge to clear Cole's name, according to the Innocence Project of Texas, a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the wrongfully convicted.
Among those expected to testify are Mallin and Jerry Wayne Johnson, her confessed rapist.
Family seeks to clear man who died in prison - CNN.com
CNN
DALLAS, Texas (CNN) -- The family of Timothy Cole, a Texas man who died in prison nearly a decade ago while serving a sentence for a rape he swore he did not commit, is hoping a court will issue the state's first posthumous exoneration.
Timothy Cole died in prison while serving a sentence for a rape DNA tests show he did not commit.
1 of 2 Cole was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1985 rape of 20-year-old Michele Mallin. He maintained his innocence, but it was not confirmed by DNA until years after his 1999 death, when another inmate confessed to the rape.
"Everybody thinks he died a felon, a hardened criminal," Cole's brother, Cory Session, told CNN. "That's what hurts."
The court hearing on the exoneration began Thursday afternoon, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Mallin, who has spoken publicly about the case, will join Cole's family in the Austin, Texas, courtroom. They want a judge to clear Cole's name, according to the Innocence Project of Texas, a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the wrongfully convicted.
Among those expected to testify are Mallin and Jerry Wayne Johnson, her confessed rapist.
Family seeks to clear man who died in prison - CNN.com
