Month: June 2023

Dear Supporters, Yesterday, in Jones v. Hendrix, the United States Supreme Court made it even more difficult for innocent people to overturn their convictions and be freed from incarceration for crimes they did not commit.  At Texas Defender Service, we know first-hand that the criminal-legal system makes mistakes. Many of our clients have compelling claims of  innocence. Their […]

Dear Supporters, Next week we celebrate Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day when federal troops began to make freedom a reality for enslaved people in Texas. On June 19, 1865, federal troops in Galveston, Texas proclaimed that enslaved people in the Lone Star State had been freed by executive decree. Federal troops announced this more than two years after President […]