WE FIGHT AGAINST THE BROKEN SYSTEM

Texas post-conviction attorney London Sneden has written a new article about a pattern she sees in file after file: an inmate who endured years of abuse, reacted once, and was convicted on the strength of a recording his or her her abuser made of that moment. The pattern has a name now, reactive abuse, and this year it went from a term in domestic-violence research to a national conversation. The article, When Surviving Looks Like a Crime: Reactive Abuse, Recorded “Evidence,”

Criminal Appeals Advocates is pleased to publish a new article by Matt Daher, the lead attorney for our Texas cases, titled From Bad Lawyering To Long Sentencing: How Ineffective Assistance of Counsel at Sentencing Can Impact Appeal Options. Written for Texas inmates and their families, the article explains in plain language when an attorney's failures at sentencing rise to a constitutional violation, and what an inmate can do about it after the fact. Download the full articl

Criminal appeals attorney Matt Daher has published a new guide titled "Overturning Texas Sex-Crime Convictions: Trial or Plea," a comprehensive resource for anyone convicted of a sex crime in Texas who believes their case was handled unfairly. The guide tackles one of the most persistent and damaging myths in criminal law: that pleading guilty means you can never challenge your conviction. This is simply not true. Under Texas law, a post-conviction writ of habeas corpus

Attorney Caitlin Dukes has achieved a significant victory in the court of appeal on a case where a client, previously convicted of...