From left to right are Innocence Project of Texas Board president Gary Udashen, Innocence Project staff attorney Nina Morrison, and defendants Dennis Allen and Stanley Mozee at a May 10, 2019, hearing in Dallas County’s 265th District Court in which Allen’s and Mozee’s charges for capital murder were dismissed based on actual innocence. Photo: Ron Jenkins/Innocence Project
“Nothing in my career is as satisfying as this type of work, where you are able to help get someone exonerated for something they did not do and for which they have spent years in prison,” said attorney Gary Udashen.
May 10, 2019 at 06:53 PM
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Criminal defense attorneys Nina Morrison and Gary Udashen, collectively, have successfully fought to prove that 47 people were wrongfully convicted.
Yet it never gets old to stand in a courtroom and hear a judge say the words “actually innocent” before crowds of family members and news cameras, as happened Friday for two of the attorneys’ clients, Stanley Orson Mozee and Dennis Lee Allen, who were wrongfully convicted of capital murder in 2000.
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