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For the past few months, I have received near daily letters from Ronnie Turner, a Black man in his late 50s who claims that he was wrongfully convicted of aggravated robbery of a Fort Worth convenience store 18 years ago. The dozens of letters and large envelopes that greeted me every day as I returned from work were
Rather than anomalies, wrongful convictions are often the result of official misconduct, according to recent reporting by the Washington Post. More than 50% of documented cases of wrongful convictions between 1989 and 2019 resulted from police misconduct (34%), prosecutor misconduct (30%), or a combination of both.
The controversial practice of using forensic hypnosis in Texas courtroom was almost banned when it passed unanimously the legislature. But then Gov. Abbott vetoed it.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man who had been convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing but was later eliminated as the killer by DNA evidence was declared innocent on Wednesday by Texas’ highest criminal court. The ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals came after a new analysis of DNA found on the victim’s […]
Appeals Court Finally Exonerates Lydell Grant—Two Years After DNA Evidence Cleared Him And 18 months after the police, district attorney, and trial judge all declared the Houston man innocent. Better late than never. Today, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals—the highest criminal tribunal in the state—finally came around to a conclusion that the rest of the justice system (cops, prosecutors, other judges) reached back in 2019: Lydell Grant is innocent. As we wrote in the January issue of Texas Monthly, Grant was arrested for the 2010 murder of a young man named Aaron Scheerhoorn outsi...