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David Ray Harris, whose false testimony sent an innocent man to death row before the 1988 documentary “The Thin Blue Line” cast doubt on the evidence, was executed Wednesday for an unrelated...
Jun 25, 2011 · Mr. Adams was walking along a Dallas street after his car had run out of gas when a teenager, David Ray Harris, came by in a stolen car and offered him a ride. The two spent the day drinking,...
Jul 1, 2015 · Adams was released in 1989, one year after The Thin Blue Line brought his case before the eyes of the nation. David Harris was never charged for the murder of Officer Robert Wood, and was executed in 2004 for an unrelated murder.
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Aug 25, 1988 · The Thin Blue Line: Directed by Errol Morris. With Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson. A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
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- Documentary, Crime
- Errol Morris
- 1988-08-25
The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American documentary film by Errol Morris, about the trial and conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. Morris became interested in the case while doing research for a film about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist known in Texas as "Dr. Death" for testifying with ...
While incarcerated for the crime, Adams was the subject of the 1988 documentary film The Thin Blue Line, which was cited as being instrumental in his exoneration the following year. Writer-director Errol Morris knew that Harris had, on multiple occasions, bragged about shooting a police officer. [6]
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Jun 30, 2004 · More than 18 years after he was sentenced to death, the legal lifeline ran out for convicted killer David Ray Harris, who gained notoriety from a documentary movie that helped show his false...
