Dallas County Ex-Prosecutor Disbarred for Withholding Evidence After 2 Wrongful Capital Murder Convictions

Richard E. Jackson is just the fourth lawyer in the country to lose a law license after egregious misconduct that led to a wrongful conviction. A former Dallas County prosecutor has surrendered his law license after the State Bar of Texas said he withheld evidence that led to the wrongful convictions of two men who spent 14 years in prison in the fatal stabbing of a pastor.

The Dallas Morning News reported that Richard E. "Rick" Jackson surrendered his law license last month. The State Bar concluded that he failed to inform Dennis Allen and Stanley Mozee's defense attorneys about evidence that could have cleared them at their capital murder trials in 2000.