Home free: four years ago I was arrested in Tulia and sentenced to prison for a crime I didn't commit. They finally let me out this fall, but I'm still afraid to leave my house.(As Told To)

Publication: Texas Monthly

Publication Date: 01-DEC-03

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by Joe Moore

IT WAS THE YEAR BEFORE AN ELECTION, in 1999, and everybody wanted to look good. The county, hired Turn Coleman to lead a drug task force. I had a record, and I had gone to prison in 1990 for possession of cocaine. I did three months, though I had been flamed for that too. The sheriff and the DA knew about my record, and since they had this task force, they mid Coleman to get Joe Moore. He had come by my house a few times, and I had chased him away and cussed him out. When somebody starts coming to your house...

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