In response to the wave of Texas wrongful convictions, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on June 3, 2008, announced the establishment of the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit (TCJIU). CCA Judge Barbara Hervey, who made the announcement, called the TCJIU “a call to action to address the growing concerns with the criminal justice system.”
The announcement comes less than a month after The Justice Project participated in a summit on wrongful convictions at the Texas Capitol in Austin. Read More »
Texas Wrongful Convictions
Texas must respond to the crisis of wrongful convictions in the state. Each time another Texan is wrongly imprisioned, the public’s confidence in our criminal justice system is undermined. Texas has had 33 exonerations from DNA evidence since 2001.
A Reform Agenda for Texas
The Justice Project is focused on three main goals in Texas designed to fight the epidemic of wrongful convictions and to increase fairness and accuracy in the Texas criminal justice system: improving the quality of evidence in criminal cases; creating a mechanism to review errors in cases of wrongful conviction; and reforming the Texas indigent defense system.


