by Bert | Mar 11, 2019 | Texas
Alfred Brown’s case—one we have covered several times over the years—reached an important milestone this past week. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg “has officially declared Alfred Dewayne Brown, who was on death row for almost 10 years, innocent. An...
by Jane | Jan 22, 2019 | Texas
The Texas State Bar has dismissed allegations against former Harris County prosecutor Dan Rizzo of a cover-up that landed Alfred Dewayne Brown on death row. It has been four years since we wrote about the reversal of Brown’s conviction and death sentence, and in that...
by OpenFile | Aug 11, 2014 | Texas, The Open File Blog
Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle and Radley Balko of the Washington Post have exposed a disturbing trend in the selection of grand jurors in Harris County, Texas. Falkenberg has also reported on the troublesome manner in which one of those grand juries...