Brandon Woodruff’s high school graduation photo Convicted of a murder he says he didn’t commit, gay man continues to fight for his freedom DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Although Brandon Woodruff’s appeals so far have failed, the Innocence Project of Texas has begun to look into the case of the gay man convicted in March 2009, in the October 2005 murder of his parents, Dennis and Norma Woodruff.
A jury in Rockwall County convicted Woodruff, even though there was no evidence pointing to the then-college student as the culprit.
Woodruff has maintained his innocence all along, saying he believes that anti-gay bias played a major role in his conviction.