Dear Supporters, In Texas, people can be convicted of murder and sentenced to death for crimes committed by other people. That’s possible under Texas’s incredibly harsh Law of Parties. As we explained in our last email, Texas’s Law of Parties allows prosecutors to charge people with crimes committed by someone else as a “party”—even if they […]
Dear Supporters, We wanted to share the news that our client Eric Johnson has been resentenced. When he was a child, Eric received an unconstitutional sentence of mandatory juvenile life without parole. The U.S. Supreme Court declared that such sentences are unconstitutional over a decade ago. But Eric, and many others, are still serving these […]
Dear Supporters, My name is Estelle Hebron-Jones, and I am the Director of Special Projects at Texas Defender Service, a role that I stepped into in December of last year after five years as an attorney at TDS. On behalf of TDS, I am thrilled to share with you our latest report, titled Arbitrary and Capricious: Examining Racial […]
