Three years after reinstating the mortgage fraud indictments against wealthy oil heir Albert G. Hill III, Dallas’ Fifth Court of Appeals in an about-face recently dismissed all of the charges against him with prejudice due to prosecutorial misconduct by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.

Hill’s high-profile dispute is centered on a protracted federal battle involving the management of the Hunt family trusts, of which Hill is an heir. And Hill has long maintained that he was selectively prosecuted for mortgage fraud charges as a favor to his former lawyer, Lisa Blue.