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Kerry Max Cook is an American former Death Row inmate who was wrongfully convicted of the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards in Tyler, Texas. He was exonerated in 2017 after spending nearly 40 years in prison.
Born in 1956 in American, Cook was raised in a middle-class family in Tyler, Texas. He attended Tyler Junior College and was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society.
In 1977, Cook was arrested and charged with the murder of Linda Jo Edwards. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1978. His conviction was overturned in 1980, but he was retried and convicted again in 1982. He was sentenced to life in prison.
In 1997, Cook filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Smith County, Texas, alleging that he had been wrongfully convicted. The lawsuit was settled in 1999 for $2.4 million.
In 2017, Cook was exonerated after DNA evidence proved his innocence. He was released from prison after spending nearly 40 years in prison.
Cook is now an advocate for criminal justice reform and works with the Innocence Project. He is also a public speaker and has written a book about his experience, Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit.
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Cook has written a book published by HarperCollins entitled Chasing Justice which details his conviction, the widespread prosecutorial abuses which led to it, and the battle to prove his innocence. Chasing Justice was nominated for the Edgar Award by Mystery Writers of America. He was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to write the book. In an advance blurb for the memoir, former FBI Director and Federal Judge William S. Sessions noted, "Kerry Max Cook has written a brutal but compelling account of his 22 years on Texas’s death row for a murder he did not commit. The book depicts his struggles against all odds to free himself from an inept justice system that would not let go, despite mounting and eventually overwhelming evidence of his innocence. What is perhaps most amazing is the grace with which he now lives his life as a free man, determined to prevent others from suffering the horrors he endured."
On June 6, 2016 Prosecutors agreed to drop the charges against Kerry Max Cook; this was motivated in part by James Mayfield's admission that he had lied about not having sex with the victim for weeks.
Cook and his lawyer Marc McPeak have embarked on a new legal endeavor to clear his name: a motion to perform DNA tests on physical evidence found at the murder scene. McPeak also filed a motion to recuse Judge Jack Skeen, the former district attorney who prosecuted Cook's first two trials, as Skeen would be the one to hear the DNA-testing motion. On April 9, 2012, Administrative Judge John Ovard of Dallas granted Cook's request for DNA testing but denied his plea to move the case out of Smith County, where prosecutors who originally tried his case were found by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to have committed "egregious prosecutorial misconduct." Cook's battle to clear his name has been taken up by the online petition site Change.org.
Cook is one of six people whose stories were dramatized in the play The Exonerated by Eric Jensen and Jessica Blank. This details how each individual was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, in addition to their exoneration after varying years of imprisonment. Cook often personally participates in the play. The Exonerated has been made into a film, which first aired on the CourtTV cable television station on January 27, 2005. Kerry Cook is portrayed by Aidan Quinn in the film. At the end the film fades from the actor to Cook himself who talks about his experience, his family and his book writing.
Kerry Max Cook was born in Stuttgart, West Germany, and moved to Texas with his family in 1972. He served over 20 years in a Texas prison on Death Row. Since his release, he has become an activist against the death penalty, speaking across the United States and in Europe.
Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is an American former Death Row inmate who was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977.
