Read more Craig Watkins stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/23199/craig-watkins.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 24 May 2012 20:04:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/42763/dallas-da-makes-waves-by-overturning-convictions.htmlRob Quinn<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=153582&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401000900' border='0' />Craig Watkins is becoming famous for something rather unusual for a district attorney: getting people out of jail, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Dallas County prosecutor is painstakingly going through hundreds of convictions secured by his predecessors, using DNA evidence to overturn wrongful convictions. His Conviction Integrity Unit has...Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins poses in his Dallas law office, Dec. 21, 2006. http://www.newser.com/story/42763/dallas-da-makes-waves-by-overturning-convictions.htmlSat, 15 Nov 2008 06:34:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/19303/dallas-da-finds-stored-docs-on-jfk-slaying.htmlMatt Cantor<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=75102&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401021710' border='0' />Dallas County officials have uncovered a batch of JFK assassination materials, including a transcript between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald that one expert laughed off as a likely fake. Other items include correspondence, records of the Ruby trial, and a gun holster, the Dallas Morning News reports .President Kennedy off Hyannisport, MA, aboard the "Honey Fitzby Cecil Stoughton," August 1963. The Dallas District Attorney's office has discovered boxes of materials related to the JFK assassination. (NARA)http://www.newser.com/story/19303/dallas-da-finds-stored-docs-on-jfk-slaying.htmlSun, 17 Feb 2008 17:35:00 CST