Mar 01 2010
The Innocence Project of Texas is delighted to announce that earlier today Texas Governor Rick Perry granted the state’s first posthumous pardon to I.P.O.T. client Timothy Cole. Cole was wrongfully convicted of a sexual assault in Lubbock County and died in prison serving time for that crime. The true perpetrator confessed to the crime prior [...]
Jan 07 2010
Great news!
The Texas Attorney General’s Office today issued an opinion stating that the Governor can grant posthumous pardons. The opinion was requested on behalf of Timothy Cole, a man who died in prison in 1999 while serving a sentence for rape and was exonerated by the Innocence Project of Texas in February 2009. Click [...]
Oct 24 2009
This past Thursday, Innocence Project of Texas members met in Houston to elect the organization’s Board of Directors for the 2009-2010 year. Our new Board members include some of the most successful criminal defense attorneys in the state in addition to exonerees and others dedicated to the cause of exonerating the wrongfully convicted. The 2009-2010 [...]