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- FIRED. Winfield Scott, 48, Dallas prosecutor who last month
- fought the release from prison of Randall Dale Adams, despite an
- appeals-court ruling overturning Adams' conviction for the 1976
- slaying of police officer Robert Wood; by his superior, District
- Attorney John Vance; in Dallas. After spending 12 1/2 years in
- prison, Adams was freed in March, partly because of evidence
- unearthed by Errol Morris in his documentary film The Thin Blue
- Line. In his last-minute effort to keep Adams behind bars, Scott
- attacked the judge who reviewed the case as being biased in
- Adams' favor.
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