On January 15, 2010 the judge in charge of the complaint submitted its findings and recommended that the complaint be canceled. Federal Judge Mary Lou Robinson confirmed this report, January 20, 2010, she issued a one-page ruling confirming the cancellation of the complaint against the Gray County District Attorney, Lynn Switzer. This was … Continue Reading ››
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News November 2009
On November 23, 2009, the defense filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court and on November 27, the team also filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Attorney General of Gray County, Lynn Switzer, who refuses to hand the evidence over to the defense so that DNA testing can be … Continue Reading ››
News May 2008 – September 2009
There have been two developments for Hank's case in recent months. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of Appeal on 14 May 2008. His lawyers filed a motion July 24, 2008. On July 14, 2009, that court dismissed the appeal. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin granted a … Continue Reading ››
Post-Conviction DNA Exonerations
To this day, there have been 317 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States, 18 of those were death row cases. Texas leads the country not only in terms of executions (515), but also in terms of DNA exonerations (48) and this is no coincidence.