"When we see acts when individuals intend to cause a person to be convicted for a crime they did not commit, that's an embarrassment for our profession," Watkins said.
Robert Rogers, a former Dallas prosecutor, commented.
"Who would want to be a prosecutor knowing that if they made a mistake, then that people are going to be clamoring for them to go to jail?"
Many Dallas County prosecutors who sent innocent people to prison now work in private practices.
