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Another Big Winner in the Texas Midterm? The Wrongly Convicted.
One of the big winners of Tuesday’s election in Texas could be the wrongly convicted—more specifically, those who try to get help in the courts by asserting their “actual innocence.” The phrase refers to a legal concept by which a wrongly convicted person can not only get his or her conviction overturned but also be fully exonerated, and thus be entitled to millions of dollars in compensation from the State of Texas. It’s a concept that has been used more than forty times by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest criminal court in the state, to legally exonerate the innocent. One of the most notable examples was in 2024, when Kerry Max Cook, a man who had been wrongly convicted of murdering a…The post Another Big Winner in the Texas Midterm? The Wrongly Convicted. appeared first on Texas Monthly.