Steven Phillips spent 25 years in a Texas prison for a crime he did not commit, a miscarriage of justice for which the state of Texas compensated him with millions of dollars under the Tim Cole Act. And he won’t have to pay $114,459.50 of that money to his ex-wife, thanks to a recent ruling that his attorney Randy Turner won before Dallas’ Fifth Court of Appeals.
The background to the Fifth Court’s May 12 ruling in Steven Phillips v. Traci Tucker is as follows.
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