Records wiped clean for
most in tainted drug bust
LUBBOCK, Texas - Thirty people convicted in a discredited drugbust that sent dozens to prison on bogus charges had their criminalrecords wiped clean.
Visiting Judge Ron Chapman ordered the records expunged Tuesday.At an evidentiary hearing in June 2003, the judge called theundercover agent who built the cases, Tom Coleman, "simply not acredible witness under oath."
Coleman arrested 46 people, most of them black, in this small,predominantly white farming community, leading civil rights groups toquestion if the busts were racially motivated.
Coleman worked alone and no drugs were ever found, but …
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