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Lets face it. Potential innocence isnt the only thing Harris
County District Attorney Devon
Anderson is considering as she
name is Jero Dorty. And the district attorneys office has been
aware of his potential role in
Clarks death for at least seven
years.
In 2007, Browns writ attorneys with the rm K&L Gates
named Dorty as a critical suspect and spent nearly 10 pages
of an appeal laying out the
reasons why. In 2008, Browns
attorneys led an emergency
motion to test Dortys DNA. But
prosecutors dragged their feet.
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LIFE TRIBUTES
Perry O. Wright
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Perry O. Wright age 87
passed away on December
17th, 2014 in Houston, Texas.
He was born in Madison,
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in 1945 at age 17. He enlisted
in the Navy upon graduation
in June and served in San
Diego until after the end of
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COMMENTARY
name is Jero Dorty. And the district attorneys office has been
aware of his potential role in
Clarks death for at least seven
years.
In 2007, Browns writ attorneys with the rm K&L Gates
named Dorty as a critical suspect and spent nearly 10 pages
of an appeal laying out the
reasons why. In 2008, Browns
attorneys led an emergency
motion to test Dortys DNA. But
prosecutors dragged their feet.
Family
ties raise
Lets face it. Potential innocence isnt the only thing Harris County District Attorney
Devon
Anderson is considering as she decides whether to retry Alfred Dewayne Brown
for
the
slaying of a
red
flags
Houston police officer.
Shes got a dead cop on her hands, Charles R. Clark, a 20-year veteran, beloved
on husband
no-bidand
brother, who was gunned down as he tried to stop a three-man robbery of an ACE check-cashing place
contracts
in April 2003.
By Lisa Falkenberg
KATY
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By Cindy Horswell
Another homicide
Montgomery County
Judge
Alan Sadler, who
is
By then,
though,
Dorty
had already been charged in another homicide, apparently resulting from a
stepping down after nearly
a quarter of a century in
drug dealoffice,
gone
attorneys felt the new charge bolstered their case and urged prosecutors
never bad.
dreamed Browns
of a
career in politics.
to take evidence
linking
Dorty
to Clarks death seriously.
When Sadler married
his wife, Mimi, 34 years
Mr. Dorty
dangerous
individual, with a record of using firearms to rob, harm and kill people,
ago, he is
wasaworking
in
banking and real estate
and she would wrote
tell her
Browns attorney
in a November 2010 letter to Hampton and other prosecutors. Defense counsel
friends, Well, at least hes
not a politician.
has steadfastly
asserted that Mr. Dorty, and not Mr. Brown, was responsible for the crimes committed
But Sadler, now 66, got
the itch
to run for county
on April 3,
2003.
judge after being appointto a committee to study
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Dortysed
trial
for the March
2009 drug
deal killing ended in a hung jury. He pleaded
guilty last year to
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felony possession of a weapon. Now 33, he is serving a 10-year prison sentence.
Its not clear
how closely
theBaptist
DAs office
investigated Dorty in the Clark case. Hampton and other
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prosecutors did not return messages. The DAs spokesman said the office
comment on a
at 4p wouldnt
& 6p
pending case.
Cypress Campus
Tyrone Moncriffe, who defended Dorty in the drug-related homicide,
said
DAs office contacted
at historic
Tinthe
Hall
him at some point about the Clark case, but he didnt remember when,
and
he wouldnt provide
at 4p
& 6p
details.
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They did make an effort to look into
it,
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