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LEWIS KXAN NEWS.
A FORMER LONGHORN
BASKETBALL STAR WAS FREED FROM
THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY JAIL TODAY.
TODAY. "PATRIC FAIRS"
SPENT MORE THAN A YEAR BEHIND
BARS - CHARGED IN THE ***
OF HIS GIRLFRIEND SIX YEARS AGO.
AGO. "FAIRS" FOUND
PHILISE ESTES DEAD AT HER
ROUND ROCK HOME IN JANUARY OF
2006. AN AUTOPSY FOUND
THAT SHE HAD BEEN STRANGLED.
"FAIRS" SUBSEQUENTLY MOVED
TO CALIFORNIA. BUT HE
WAS ARRESTED IN OCTOBER OF
LAST YEAR - AND CHARGED IN THE
DEATH. HIS DEFENSE
ATTORNIES SAY THE FORENSIC
EVIDENCE IN THE CASE WAS NEVER
PROPERLY TESTED. TODAY,
HE WALKED OUT OF JAIL AFTER
THE D.A.'S OFFICE DISMISSED
THE *** CHARGE.
CHARGE."PART OF THE DELAY WAS
MULTIPLE INVESTIGATORS, PART
OF THE DELAY WAS MULTIPLE
PROSECUTORS REVIEWING THE
FILE. PART OF THE DELAY WAS
FLAT OUT INEXCUSABLE.
INEXCUSABLE TO MISS ESTES
FAIRS.
"PATRIC FAIRS" WAS A
BASKETBALL STAR FOR THE
LONGHORNS IN THE LATE 1980'S.
HE INTENDS TO BE BACK HOME
IN CALIFORNIA TONIGHT.
THE D.A.'S OFFICE MEANTIME
INVESTIGATE THE CASE.
GOING IN-DEPTH NOW....
NOW........IN THE WAKE OF THE
MICHAEL MORTON CASE- WHERE
ATTORNEYS ARGUE THEY WERE NOT
HAVE CAST DOUBT ON MORTON'S
INNOCENCE DURING HIS TRIAL
WILLIAMSON COUNTY DISTRICT
ATTORNEY JOHN BRADLEY SAID
LAST YEAR HE WOULD EXPAND HIS
DISCOVERY-- OR 'OPEN FILE' POLICY...
POLICY......BY MAKING FILES
AVAILABLE TO DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
EARLIER IN THE CASE.... AND
MAKING COPIES OF EVIDENCE THAT
COULD BE SHARED IN A DIGITAL