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- After serving 14 years on Texas’ death row for a murder he didn’t commit, Michael Blair was exonerated in 2008 when a series of DNA tests proved his innocence. Blair was the 17th person in the United States who spent time on death row and was subsequently exonerated by DNA testing.
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Aug 23, 2013 · The Texas Supreme Court on Friday denied inmate Michael Blair's request to be compensated for the time he spent on death row wrongfully convicted of murder, ruling that his other convictions...
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After serving 14 years on Texas’ death row for a murder he didn’t commit, Michael Blair was exonerated in 2008 when a series of DNA tests proved his innocence. Blair was the 17th person in the United States who spent time on death row and was subsequently exonerated by DNA testing.
Sep 18, 2008 · According to DPIC’s innocence list, Blair is the fourth person to be exonerated from death row in 2008 and the ninth in Texas since the death penalty was reinstated. His case brings the total number of exonerations from death row to 130 since 1973. Blair remains in prison on other charges.
Michael Blair. On September 4, 1993, seven-year-old Ashley Estell was kidnapped from Carpenter Park in Plano, Texas, while with her family at her older brother’s soccer game. Her body was found the next day by a roadside. She had been strangled.
May 27, 2008 · Fourteen years ago, a Texas jury sent Michael Blair to death row for a child murder he always said he didn’t commit. On Friday, a judge recommended tossing his conviction due to mounting evidence of his innocence.
Oct 2, 2008 · Convicted killer Michael Blair was granted relief in the abduction and murder case of 7-year-old Ashley Estell. Now the unanswered question lurks: who is the real killer? Newly discovered DNA...
Jun 26, 2008 · Michael Blair spent 14 years on Texas’ death row for a murder he has always maintained he didn’t commit before the state’s highest criminal court overturned his conviction yesterday based on DNA evidence of his innocence.
