Dallas County Prosecutor Disbarred for Withholding Evidence After 2 Men Cleared of Capital Murder Charges

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A former Dallas County prosecutor has surrendered his law license after the State Bar of Texas said that he withheld evidence that caused two men to be wrongfully convicted of killing a South Dallas pastor, the Dallas Morning News reported.

According to the report by the Dallas Morning News, Richard "Rick" E. Jackson was disbarred last month.

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The State Bar concluded that Jackson failed to inform the defense attorneys of Dennis Allen and Stanley Mozee about evidence that could have cleared them during their capital murder trials in 2000, the Dallas Morning News reported.

As a result, the courts said that Allen and Mozee wrongfully spent 14 years in prison for the murder of Rev. Jesse Borns Jr., who was killed in 1999.

"This case is not about someone disbarred for making a mistake or a prosecutor who accidentally or even sloppily failed to turn over favorable evidence," Nina Morrison, a lawyer with the Innocence Project in New York who worked to clear Allen and Mozee, told the Dallas Morning News.

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maybeCheri on May 15th, 2021 at 01:23 UTC »

Just disbarred?? Not prosecuted?!?!

human_male_123 on May 15th, 2021 at 00:13 UTC »

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2021/05/13/dallas-county-prosecutor-who-withheld-evidence-disbarred-after-dna-tests-clear-2-men-of-murder/

Jackson retired from practicing law in 2013 after he was fired from the Denton County district attorney’s office. While testifying in proceedings for Allen and Mozee’s cases, Jackson said he was terminated because he wanted to be tougher on crimes than his boss. The district attorney’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

Jackson was also among a slew of prosecutors who were not invited to remain in the Dallas County district attorney’s office after former DA Craig Watkins won the 2006 election. Jackson, who had spent 17 years as a Dallas County prosecutor, sued Watkins in federal court, claiming that his termination was race based. Jackson is white and Watkins is Black.

Okay we should probably take a look at a few of his other cases.

FuckUGalen on May 14th, 2021 at 23:49 UTC »

How can you know someone is innocent and still prosecute them, letting an actual murder remain at large.