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The Timothy Cole Story
Eakin Press
May 2010
On Sale: May 7, 2010
258 pages
ISBN: 1935632043
EAN: 9781935632047
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Non-Fiction
During the closing months of 1984 and extending through
March 25, 1985, a number of violent rapes occurred around
Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. As a result, females, both
students and employees of the university, along with those
who worked in the general area, were caught up in a wave of
terror in the persona of the Tech rapist. A PLEA FOR JUSTICE: The Timothy Cole Story describes how a
24-year-old black student and an army veteran became
entangled in a web of deceit cast by an overly-aggressive
police investigation, unjustly arrested without any physical
evidence to link him to the crime, falsely convicted, and
then incarcerated for aggravated sexual assault on a fellow
student whom he had never seen until the first day of his
trial. Before he passed away while serving the thirteenth of
a twenty-five year sentence, Tim Cole expressed a fervent
desire to be vindicated, exonerated, and pardoned, and in an
effort to honor his last wishes, a devoted mother and
family, supported and represented by the Innocence Project
of Texas, carried the fight to the state courts, to both
houses of the state's legislature, to the Board of Pardons
and Paroles, and finally to the governor. This is a gut-wrenching story of courage, devotion,
conviction, honor, a family that never compromised its
principles, and how at the end of a struggle that lasted
almost twenty-five years, the foundations of how the Lone
Star State conducts criminal investigations and treats its
exonerees are rocked to the very core.
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