Ballistics link keeps actor behind bars

 
By Ken Raymond
Published: September 7, 2008

Alfred Brooks almost got out of prison in 1988.

Then 35, he was the lead writer and actor for The OK D.O.C. Players, a drama troupe that performed for Oklahoma schools. His work there so impressed the state parole board chairman that he brought Brooks up for parole two years earlier than expected.

That's when Norman police unveiled previously secret evidence. Ballistics examiners had linked the double-shooti...


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