HOUSTON (AP) - A 33-year-old Houston man is now free after spending nearly a decade on death row in Texas for the fatal shooting of a Houston police officer.
Alfred Dewayne Brown was released Monday evening after Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson dismissed capital murder against him.
Brown won a new trial last year after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed that telephone records bolstering his claims of innocence in the death of Houston Officer Charles Clark were withheld from Brown's 2005 trial. The phone records surfaced in 2013 year as a homicide investigator was cleaning out his garage.
Anderson said Monday evidence is insufficient to support testimony by Brown's co-defendant.
Clark died responding to a 2003 robbery. Elijah Joubert also is on death row for the slaying.
