Thanks to the Innocence Project, Mallory Nicholson is a free man today.
On Thursday, a Texas judge granted the Dallas County district attorney’s motion to exonerate Nicholson, 75. He was convicted in 1982 of burglary and 2 counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
He served over 20 years of a 55-year prison sentence before his release in 2003 on sex-offender parole.
There was no physical evidence that connected Nicholson to the crime. He had an iron-clad alibi. And he has maintained his innocence for forty years.
.@judgecreuzot says he can’t explain how evidence of another suspect, now deceased, was not shared with Mallory Nicholson’s 1982 defense but the current DA says he did what he could to correct the error once he learned of it. @NBCDFW pic.twitter.com/EZ2J9pSQM3
— Ken Kalthoff (@KenKalthoffNBC5) June 2, 2022
Innocence Project in-action
The Innocence Project presented Nicholson’s alibi evidence. He had in-fact been surrounded by his family at his wife’s funeral. And the funeral was 45 minutes outside of Dallas, which made it impossible to have committed the crimes.
However, the only reason the case was reopened is new evidence was discovered. The state had withheld in the original trial. The re-discovered evidence pointed to another person committing the crime. And the conviction was vacated.
