Politics & Policy
March 27, 2024
Many in Bastrop Moved on From the Rodney Reed Trial. One Juror Couldn’t.
As the high-profile capital murder case is appealed in the courts, one woman who sentenced Reed to death tells all about the trial.
Court of Criminal Appeals
Politics & Policy
October 5, 2023
James Reyos Has Always Been Innocent. After Forty Years, the Courts Agree.
On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared the 67-year-old Native American innocent of a 1981 murder.
Politics & Policy
May 13, 2015
Appeal to Reason
Mimi Swartz cross-examines the Court of Criminal Appeals’ unprecedented sanctions against a death penalty lawyer.
Politics & Policy
September 17, 2014
Hannah Overton’s Capital Murder Conviction Is Overturned
And now the Nueces County DA must decide whether to retry her.
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
And Justice for Some
How the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals mistakes toughness for fairness—and gives the state a black eye.
February 22, 2012
Why This Latest Exoneree is So Lucky
The Court of Criminal Appeals examined the case of Richard Miles, applied common sense and legal logic, and determined that he was innocent.
Update
February 9, 2012
Hannah Overton’s Case Will be Examined Again
The Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a lower court to examine claims of innocence by the Corpus Christi mother of five, who was charged with capital murder nearly six years ago.
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2010
The Sharon Keller Report: Texas Defender Services to blame, but Keller “not exemplary of a public servant”
Texas Monthly senior editor Michael Hall has followed the case of Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and files this commentary on the findings of fact in the case, which was just released by Judge David Berchelmann, the Special Master in charge of figuring out what
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1982
Trial by Technicality
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals confirms your worst fears about lawyers and judges and the impotence of the criminal justice system.