Dear Friends, Please join us for Texas Defender Service’s 2023 Light of Justice Luncheon, featuring Pulitzer-Prize winner James Forman Jr. as our keynote speaker and honoring Hogan Lovells. Sponsorships and tickets are on sale now! The luncheon, co-chaired by Christopher D. Porter of Quinn Emanuel and Robert H. Ford of Bradley, will be held on October 19th, 2023 from 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. at […]
Dear Supporters, At Texas Defender Service, we serve at the frontlines of the criminal injustice system in Texas, advocating for justice for people harmed by mass incarceration. From our vantage, we see some of the most alarming human rights abuses our society perpetrates. We wanted to share our observations about what we see as we represent people […]
Dear Supporters, Texas has the largest prison population in the United States. Every month, the Lone Star State sends thousands of people to prison for excessive sentences that fail to serve any public safety purpose. Texas Defender Service was formed to provide vital legal advocacy for indigent people in Texas facing extreme sentences—advocacy that our State fails […]
Dear Supporters: We have two pieces of important news to share with you today. First, our client, Abraham Ahumada, has avoided a death sentence after incredible advocacy by TDS’s mitigation team. Abraham was arrested in 2021 and faced federal charges related to the transportation of undocumented migrants. In February 2023, after the TDS team’s careful […]
Dear Supporters: At Texas Defender Service, we represent people in Texas prisons facing excessive punishments. That work also requires facing our State’s history of racial terror and the long legacy of slavery. The imprint of slavery is apparent in all aspects of our criminal-legal system today. Four of the five people Texas executed so far […]
Dear Supporters, Our client Shelton Jones has received a life sentence. Shelton was sentenced to death in 1991 for the shooting death of a Houston Police officer; the officer was shot after stopping and frisking two Black men who were walking down the street at night (there was no articulable justification for the stop). Shelton […]
