On International Wrongful Conviction Day, Dallas’s next generation of lawyers came face-to-face with those who’ve had no choice but to wait, held behind bars on crimes they didn’t commit.
It’s the second year that UNT Dallas College of Law’s Joyce Ann Brown Innocence Clinic has invited exonerees and read their names during a candlelight vigil.
It’s a celebration of freedom but also a reminder that an estimated 3,000 to 9,000 innocent Texans are still waiting to have their names cleared…