Amarillo criminal defense lawyer Jeff Blackburn has a certain flair for the dramatic, as is demonstrated in his recent resignation letter as chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas. On May 13, Blackburn told the East Coasters to shove it in a resignation letter he sent to the Innocence Project of Texas board of directors.
Blackburn is not fond of the Texas organization’s association with the New York-based Innocence Project. He believed the multimillion-dollar corporate fundraising ambitions of the New York Innocence Project compromised the goal of freeing wrongly convicted Texas prisoners.
