By Calvin Palmer
A Texas man who has spent more than two decades in prison after being convicted of sexual assault is due to be exonerated by DNA testing.
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said today that post-conviction tests have proved Jerry Lee Evans is innocent.
Evans, 47, was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 after being convicted of aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon.
His victim picked him out of a photo lineup one year after the assault near downtown Dallas.
A hearing is scheduled for tomorrow to enter the DNA test results in court.
The New York-based Innocence Project says Dallas County has led the nation in DNA exonerations since 2000. Evans would be the county’s 21st.
[Based on a report by the Associated Press.]
