Six months after the film's release, Adams' conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and prosecutors declined to retry the case. He was never charged with Robert Wood's murder. In 2004, Harris was executed by lethal injection for an unrelated 1985 murder. During an interview with Harris, Morris was able to record audio of him giving a pseudo- confession to the Wood murder. He later uncovered evidence of prosecutorial misconduct and eyewitness misidentification. Writer-director Errol Morris knew that Harris had, on multiple occasions, bragged about shooting a police officer. While incarcerated for the crime, Adams was the subject of the 1988 documentary film The Thin Blue Line, which was cited as being instrumental in his exoneration the following year. In 1980, his sentence was commuted to life in prison.
Based on the testimony of Harris and other alleged eyewitnesses, Adams was found guilty by a Dallas County jury and imprisoned on death row.
Under an immunity agreement, Harris testified for the prosecution that Adams was the shooter of Officer Wood while he was the passenger. Adams and Harris had spent several hours together but had parted ways prior to the shooting. He insisted that the man he believed to be Wood's killer, David Ray Harris, had offered him a ride on the day of the shooting after his own car had run out of gasoline. Throughout his legal ordeal, Adams maintained his innocence. Randall Dale Adams (Decem– Octo) was an American man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W.
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