April 2017 - Texas Defender Services

Fifth Circuit Directs District Court to Vacate Sentence of TDS Client Duane Buck
posted by Steve Hall on April 13,2017 in Duane Buck, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, News Release, Race, TDS

BREAKING: Fifth Circuit directs district court to vacate sentence of Texas Defender Service client Duane Buck Five and a half years after Texas Defender Service obtained a life-saving stay of execution for Texas death row prisoner Duane Buck, the Fifth Circuit has directed the district …
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U.S. Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Texas Death Penalty Case
posted by Steve Hall on April 3,2017 in Carlos Ayestas, Case, News Release, Supreme Court

Statement from Attorneys for Petitioner in Response to Today’s Grant of Certiorari in Ayestas v. Davis April 3, 2017 Below is a statement from the attorneys: “Mr. Ayestas’s case is about the right to be fairly charged and defended. From the charging decision through the …
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