Good luck, Texas

I don't know the back story to this, but I hope it works out a lot better for Texas than it did for Wisconsin:

A man who spent 18 years behind bars for allegedly attacking a woman in her home has been released after DNA testing excluded him as the attacker.

"I don't know how to apologize. I don't know where to start, but I'll start with me and 'I'm sorry,"' District Judge John Creuzot said Monday as he released Gregory Wallis, now 47. Creuzot was not involved in the original trial.

Wallis was a 29-year-old warehouse worker when he was convicted in 1988 of burglary with intent to commit sexual assault and sentenced to 50 years in prison.

The case was closed until Willis' 2004 request for post-conviction DNA analysis led to tests that found his didn't match the DNA from the crime scene.

If he's innocent, he's innocent and you have to let him go. If he had any kind of previous criminal record, though, I hope Texas officials keep an eye on Wallis for the public's sake.