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Managing editor of the Clifton Record, W. Leon Smith, continued working both Judy Whitley and Mickey Bryan\u2019s cases for years. In 1999, when ex-Clifton policeman Dennis Murry Dunlap was officially named Judy\u2019s killer, Leon was almost certain Joe Bryan hadn\u2019t murdered his wife Mickey but couldn\u2019t find the evidence to exonerate him. A few years later, a Waco attorney began looking into Joe\u2019s case and was appalled at the lack of evidence he was convicted on. It was this attorney\u2019s student at Baylor University Law, Jessica Freud, however, that inarguably proved Joe Dale Bryan should not have been convicted. Still, an old school, old guard Texas judge wasn\u2019t willing to write the wrong the state had made.

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Sources: innocencetexas.org, The Clifton Record and the reporting of W. Leon Smith, The Austin American-Statesman, The New York Times\u2019 two-part series \u201cBlood Will Tell\u201d by Pamela Colloff, \xa0The Waco Tribune-Herald, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172881/, court appeal documents, and 20/20 ABC.

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