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Randall Dale Adams (December 17, 1948 – October 30, 2010 [1]) was an American man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. [2] [3] His conviction was overturned in 1989. [4] Throughout his legal ordeal, Adams maintained his innocence.
Filmmaker helped free innocent man. Sentenced to death in 1977 for the murder of a police officer in Dallas, Texas, Randall Dale Adams was exonerated as a result of information uncovered by film-maker Errol Morris and presented in an acclaimed 1988 documentary, The Thin Blue Line. Patrolman Robert Wood was shot to death during a traffic stop on ...
Jun 25, 2011 · By Douglas Martin. June 25, 2011. Randall Dale Adams, who spent 12 years in prison before his conviction in the murder of a Dallas police officer was thrown out largely on the basis of evidence ...
Randall Dale Adams. Other Texas Murder Exonerations. Randall Dale Adams. After running out of gas on November 27, 1976, Randall Dale Adams was walking along Fort Worth Avenue in Dallas, Texas, when 16-year-old David Harris picked him up in a stolen car. The two ended up spending several hours together, smoking marijuana, drinking, and watching ...
May 16, 2023 · Randall Dale Adams, walking out of a Dallas County jail in 1989 after spending 12 years in prison. ... As in the Adams case, it took an outsider to bring Mr. Schofield’s case attention, ...
Jun 27, 2011 · He was 81. By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times. June 27, 2011 12 AM PT. Randall Dale Adams, a former death row inmate who gained freedom after flaws in his conviction for the murder of a Dallas ...
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1. This capital case presents the question whether Texas contravened the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments as construed and applied in Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776 (1968), when it excluded members of the venire from jury service because they were unable to take an oath that the mandatory penalty of death or imprisonment for life would not "affect [their ...
