ladyarkles
12-04-2007, 06:59 PM
Please Note:
This was not a Capital Case but is of interest as it is the work of the Innocence Project who do a lot for DR prisoners throughout the country.
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Brett Favre was the Green Bay Packers quarterback when Chad Heins went into prison.
Thirteen years later, Favre is still the quarterback of Heins' favorite football team and Heins says it is the only thing he can relate to today.
Heins says he has not seen a cell phone or the internet yet, that he basically grew up in prison and is nervous about his new beginning.
Heins was released from prison after the State Attorney, Harry Shorstein, dropped the case based on new DNA evidence found in the 1994 murder of Heins' sister-in-law.
The evidence found that there was another person in the home at the time of the murder and not just Heins.
In Heins' first moments of freedom, he didn't know exactly what to say. "I can't explain how it feels now," were Heins' first words after his release.
Full Story - First Coast News (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=97134)
This was not a Capital Case but is of interest as it is the work of the Innocence Project who do a lot for DR prisoners throughout the country.
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Brett Favre was the Green Bay Packers quarterback when Chad Heins went into prison.
Thirteen years later, Favre is still the quarterback of Heins' favorite football team and Heins says it is the only thing he can relate to today.
Heins says he has not seen a cell phone or the internet yet, that he basically grew up in prison and is nervous about his new beginning.
Heins was released from prison after the State Attorney, Harry Shorstein, dropped the case based on new DNA evidence found in the 1994 murder of Heins' sister-in-law.
The evidence found that there was another person in the home at the time of the murder and not just Heins.
In Heins' first moments of freedom, he didn't know exactly what to say. "I can't explain how it feels now," were Heins' first words after his release.
Full Story - First Coast News (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=97134)