Killers Paroled

I’m constantly reminded of how much time has passed since I left the Manhattan DA’s Office to join Court TV on its third anniversary in 1994. One reminder is when I read about the parole of an inmate whose case we covered at Court TV. Two inmates went home in the past months, one in May and another almost a year ago. I. Do you remember the case of Houston dentist Clara Harris who ran over her cheating husband with her Mercedes not once, not twice, but three times, killing him? She was paroled in May after serving 15 of her 20-year sentence. (I didn’t cover Harris’s February 2003 trial because I was in Los Angeles for Robert Blake’s preliminary hearing which happened at that time.) David Harris, an orthodontist, and Clara had three-year-old twin boys when Clara killed David…