by Bert | Jan 16, 2018 | Texas
After years of fighting for a new trial, Dennis Lee Allen and Stanley Mozee were finally vindicated by Texas’s highest criminal court last week. For the final years of that journey, they had an unlikely companion helping them seek relief: the Dallas County District...
by Alec | Oct 28, 2014 | Texas, The Open File Blog
As the national political media updates for the ‘nth time their statistical models on the likelihood of Senate control changing hands, races with a far more direct and pervasive influence on the criminal justice system have been playing out across the country this...
by OpenFile | Sep 16, 2014 | Texas, The Open File Blog
Grits for Breakfast recently posted on a Dallas murder case with a strong prosecutorial misconduct claim that prosecutors knowingly presented false evidence. State informants testified at trial that they received nothing in exchange for their testimony that they heard...
by OpenFile | Mar 12, 2013 | Texas, The Open File Blog
In a recent editorial, Bob Ray Sanders of the Star Telegram drew attention to prosecutorial misconduct as one of the key reasons for wrongful convictions, which have been prolific in Texas. In Dallas County alone, more than 30 people have been freed as a result of DNA...
