Date: Friday, June 28, 1991 Source: By Mark S. Warnick, Scripps Howard News
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FEELING FREE WRONGLY JAILED FOR 12 YEARS, RANDALL ADAMS IS HAVING HIS SAY

    After 12 years behind bars for a murder he didn`t commit, Randall Adams
insists he isn`t bitter.

    ``Psychiatrists like to meet me,`` says the subject of the acclaimed 1988
movie documentary ``The Thin Blue Line.`` ``Everyone comments on my sense of
peace, my gentleness. I do have a sense of peace. I came 72 hours from being
executed. At that point, you better make peace with yourself.``

    The Ohio native is embarking on a nationwide tour to discuss his new
book, ``Adams vs. Texas,`` an account of a nightmare that lasted from
November 1976 until March 1989.

    Adams, now 42, was convicted of killing a Dallas police officer. The
guilty verdict and death sentence came after a trial in which prosecutors
suppressed evidence and used perjured testimony. The key witness against
Adams was a 16-year-old criminal who, years later while imprisoned for a
separate murder conviction, virtually confessed to killing the officer.
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