I might not have lost 15 years of my life if there had been laws protecting against false jailhouse informant testimony when I went to trial.
Final stretch for 2019
John,
This spring, I stood in a Texas courtroom as a judge declared me “actually innocent” of a murder I didn’t commit. At my trial in 2000, four jailhouse informants falsely implicated me — and although no physical evidence connected me to the crime, this informant testimony sealed my fate.
The state’s own files had proof that the informants had lied, and the Innocence Project found that proof when they re-investigated my case. DNA testing also excluded me from key evidence at the crime scene, and I was finally exonerated this year. But I might not have lost 15 years of my life in prison if there had been laws protecting against false jailhouse informant testimony when I went to trial.
Stanley Mozee leaves the courtroom after his conviction was vacated in 2014. Photo by Lara Solt.
Thank you for being a part of this community,
Stanley Mozee
Exonerated May 2019
Started in 1992 as a legal clinic at Cardozo School of Law, the Innocence Project is now an independent nonprofit, affiliated with Cardozo, that exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. www.innocenceproject.org
