Frustrated family members of Texas' first posthumous exoneration held out hope that the state could pardon a Fort Worth man discovered innocent almost 10 years after he died in prison.A proposed constitutional amendment giving the governor authority to pardon Timothy Brian Cole became one of the myriad casualties of a partisan fight over voter identification legislation. Texas law does not specify whether a person needs to be alive to receive a pardon. The governor's office cites a brief, 44-year-old attorney general's opinion that clearly states he may only pardon the living.  http://lubbockonline.com/stories/060609/loc_447973286.shtml

 JULY 14, 2009 UPDATE: Houston senator asks AG for new legal opinion on Cole case

  MORE ON HOW  LUBBOCK SENT A GOOD GUY TO DIE IN PRISON

MOST DANGEROUS! CORRUPT PROSECUTORS

Tim Cole's Case...ADIOS MOFOS

INJUSTICE ON THE HIGH PLAINS EXPOSED

TEXAS POLICE STATE ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Wrongfully convicted man freed after 16 years

Patrick Waller's case adds weight to the calls for a statewide innocence commission

http://www.caller.com/news/2008/jul/11/wrongfully-convicted-man-freed-after-16-years-to/

Another reason Lubbock Law Enforcement is the butt of a joke as well as corrupt

Lubbock busts Chippendales 

These butts are “legal” in West Texas

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/02/18/lubbock-busts-chippendales/

TABC officer arrested for sexual assault

On Tuesday, 40-year-old Agent Joe Chavez, Jr. was arrested and taken to the Bastrop County Jail and is currently being held on a $225,000 bond for an alleged sexual assault during a minor sting operation in May. The criminal investigation is being conducted by the Bastrop County Sheriff's office and the Texas Rangers.

 http://www.kcbd.com/global/Story.asp?s=10509441