The Innocence Project of Texas

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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 [...]

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 [...]

After spending more than 27 years incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, James Woodard has finally received a pardon from Texas Governor Rick Perry. That event officially makes Woodard the 39th man exonerated by DNA evidence in Texas.
Upon learning that the Governor formally cleared his name, Mr. Woodard said: “I wish to [...]