Tulia Justice Update
By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Mon Apr 07, 2003 at 09:41:37 AM EST
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Posted on Mon Apr 07, 2003 at 09:41:37 AM EST
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More on Justice in Tulia: See, Justice in a Small Town in today's Texas Lawyer:
It took a dozen lawyers and more than $1 million in donated fees, but last week a cadre of Texas, New York and Washington, D.C., defense lawyers may have extracted a bit of justice for 38 defendants in Tulia, Texas, who the lawyers say were wrongly convicted in a sweeping drug bust four years ago. Last week the prosecution and the defense agreed to stipulate that the police officer involved in the arrests was not credible.Why did the lawyers volunteer? Here's the story as to one of them, Jeff Blackburn, a sole practitioner from Amarillo, Texas. By January of this year, Jeff had spent more than 2,000 hours and about $39,000 of his own money on the case.
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