First, Dallas and beyond, I owe you an apology as I have been absent from this blog for far too long. In an effort to make it up to you here is a little taste of what Sally has been doing today. She is attending the Innocence Network Conference on behalf of Dallas Can...
I just received the following news bulletin from North Dallas Texas Democratic Women. So exciting!!! Texas Supreme Court orders state to pay exonerated inmates $2.7 million, previously denied By Chuck Lindell AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ordered the state to pay $2.7 million to three wrongly convicted Texans who spent, in...
One week after his official exoneration Cornelius Dupre joined State Senator Rodney Ellis on the senate floor to bring attention to the bill Senator Ellis has introduced to create a new and regulated system regarding how eye witness identifications are made. I love that Cornelius is paying it forward and already making a positive...
Today was joyous. It was an honor to be in the court room during the hearing that would recognize Cornelius Dupre as having wrongfully served 30 years for a crime he did not commit. He met his wife while he was in prison 20 years ago and she stood by him all those years....
Recently the movie, Conviction, hit theaters across the country. Starring Hilary Swank, the film depicts the true story of a young woman and her brother, who is wrongfully convicted of murder and exhausts his opportunities to appeal his case. Motivated by love and a strong desire for justice, Swank’s character becomes a lawyer with...
The New York Times published a video on their website that raises an interesting dilemma for wrongfully convicted inmates. Imagine that the individual has been convicted, serves their minimum sentence and is then up for parole. What do they say when the parole board asks them, “Do you feel remorse for the crime you...
Tested is a book by Peyton Budd, in collaboration with Dorothy Budd, that explores the stories of twelve men who were wrongly imprisoned and finally gained their freedom after spending a collective 189 years in prison. DNA testing proved their innocence. Each have a unique and significant story, but all share one thing: the...
Now this is incredible news! Anthony Graves, a 45-year-old man who spent 18 years of his life in prison, much of it on Texas’ infamous death row, was released Wednesday evening after all charges of murder against him were dropped because of insufficient evidence. Graves is the 12th, I repeat the 12th, person to...
I don’t know what to say about this other than it makes me sad in more ways than one. I am so ready for this election to be over!
Check out this video highlighting some of our Dallas exonerees. More media blitz to come as the PR machines work to promote the book Tested.