The Innocence Project of Texas

The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office announced yesterday that they have located the man who committed the rape that Thomas McGowan was initially convicted of committing. McGowan was released from incarceration in April when DNA testing proved he had been wrongfully convicted of the crime. He was officially exonerated last week when the [...]

Yesterday, Thomas McGowan became the 15th man officially exonerated by DNA testing in Dallas County when the Court of Criminal Appeals granted his writ of habeas corpus. McGowan, who was released from incarceration in April of this year, served 23 years in prison for a sexual assault that he did not commit. He [...]

In today’s edition of Texas Lawyer, John Council has an interesting article about the Dallas County prosecutors whose cases were later called into question by DNA testing that indicated the defendant’s innocence. He writes:
until now, the current and former prosecutors responsible for sending 17 men to prison for years — a total of 282 [...]