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Sheriff: Procedures not followed in Texas escape

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Published December 5, 2012 10:51pm ET
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Sheriff: Procedures not followed in Texas escape
FILE - This undated handout file photo provided by the Dallas Sheriff's Department, shows Franklin Davis. Davis, 30, of Carrollton, surrendered shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday Dec. 4, 2012 and was returned to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital from which he'd escaped about 8:30 p.m. while receiving treatment, Dallas County sheriff's spokeswoman Carmen Castro said. (AP Photo/Dallas Sheriff's Department, File) | Uncredited

DALLAS (AP) — Law enforcement officers failed to follow standard procedures for escorting prisoners when a capital murder suspect grabbed a deputy’s service revolver and escaped from a North Texas hospital, the sheriff said Wednesday.

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