Pain lingers for wrongfully convicted man
Posted on Sun, Aug. 17, 2008
By MAX B. BAKER
maxbaker@star-telegram.com
The last time John Michael Harvey was in Fort Worth, he couldn’t wait to get away.
Pale, his head shaved and weighing a bony 130 pounds, Harvey had just been released from a Texas prison after spending 12 years there for a crime he didn’t commit. Everything he owned was in two small bags.
"I just came out of a terrible place," Harvey said as he walked away from the courthouse where he had been wrongfully convicted of child molestation. His immediate plans? He didn’t know, except to say, "I’m leaving Texas."
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By MAX B. BAKER
maxbaker@star-telegram.com
The last time John Michael Harvey was in Fort Worth, he couldn’t wait to get away.
Pale, his head shaved and weighing a bony 130 pounds, Harvey had just been released from a Texas prison after spending 12 years there for a crime he didn’t commit. Everything he owned was in two small bags.
"I just came out of a terrible place," Harvey said as he walked away from the courthouse where he had been wrongfully convicted of child molestation. His immediate plans? He didn’t know, except to say, "I’m leaving Texas."
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