This is the title of an amazing article by Michael Hall in the February 2024 issue of TEXAS MONTHLY about a jury in December 1990 that wrongfully convicted a Texas man of raping an 8 year old girl and the last holdout juror who also convicted but decades later decided to do something about it. Carlos Jaile lost over 3 decades of freedom because law enforcement, the jury and the judicial system failed him. Yet one small woman, after decades of guilty feeling, changed his life. It is a story not unlike the movie "Twelve Angry Men" but with a different verdict and ending.
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