Ex-Prosecutor Disbarred After Wrongful Convictions in Texas [View all]
Source: Associated Press
A former Dallas County prosecutor has surrendered his law license after the State Bar of Texas said he withheld evidence that led to the wrongful convictions of two men who spent 14 years in prison in the fatal stabbing of a pastor.
By Associated Press
|May 16, 2021, at 7:16 p.m.
DALLAS (AP) — A former Dallas County prosecutor has surrendered his law license after the State Bar of Texas said he withheld evidence that led to the wrongful convictions of two men who spent 14 years in prison in the fatal stabbing of a pastor.
The Dallas Morning News reports that Richard E. “Rick” Jackson surrendered his law license last month. The State Bar concluded that he failed to inform Dennis Allen and Stanley Mozee's defense attorneys about evidence that could have cleared them at their capital murder trials in 2000.
“This case is not about someone disbarred for making a mistake or a prosecutor who accidentally or even sloppily failed to turn over favorable evidence,” Nina Morrison, a lawyer with the Innocence Project in New York who worked to clear Allen and Mozee, told the newspaper.
“This is someone who repeatedly and intentionally hid favorable evidence from two defendants who were on trial for their lives.”
Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-05-16/ex-prosecutor-disbarred-after-wrongful-convictions-in-texas
Richard E. “Rick” Jackson
Stanley Mozee, Conviction Integrity Unit Chief, Cynthia Garza, D.A. John Creuzot, Innocence Project Senior Staff Attorney Nina Morrisn, Dennis Allen, and Innocence Project of Texas Gary Udashen.
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