Nov 04 2009
The New York Times ran a story today about IPOT’s dog scent lineup report and Fort Bend County Deputy Keith Pikett, whose work has sent several innocent men to jail. The article details the cases of Curvis Bickam and Ron Curtis, two men who spent months in jail after being identified by Deputy Pikett [...]
May 28 2009
The Innocence Project of Texas is pleased to announce that Governor Perry signed the Timothy Cole Act in to law yesterday afternoon increasing the financial compensation received by Texas exonerees. Specifically, the new law, which will go into effect on September 1 of this year, will increase the lump sum payment to Texas exonerees to [...]
May 26 2009
The Innocence Project of Texas has recently learned that Jerry Lee Evans is expected to be released from incarceration tomorrow after serving more than 22 years on a wrongful conviction out of Dallas County. Evans, who was convicted of a 1986 aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison, has always maintained that he [...]