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Bill Habern’s law firm, Habern, O’Neil and Pawgan L.L.P. of Huntsville, was recently honored by the The Houston Lawyers Association and the Houston Lawyers Foundation. The award was the Matthew W. Plummer Sr. Justice Award, named for a former Tuskegee airman who … Continue reading →

The reaction from some members of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to Eroy Brown’s parole has been disappointingly racist and juvenile. Some of the postings are written in black dialect. There is name calling. But the brave writers are … Continue reading →

Against expectations, Eroy Brown was granted parole after spending the last 27 years in  prison for a Waco  convenience-store robbery that netted twelve dollars and couple of candy bars. Even though Brown  was convicted by a state court he served … Continue reading →

Si Dunn, novelist, screenplay writer and journalist, writes on his book blog: A prizewinning journalist has dug deeply and impressively into a double killing that still haunts the Texas Department of Criminal Justice more than 30 years after it happened. … Continue reading →

Bryan Stevenson on injustice In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along … Continue reading →

Michael King has updated his coverage of Eroy Brown’s parole chances. Huntsville attorney Bill Habern was on Brown’s original defense team and represents him in his parole case. In what he acknowledges is an extraordinary circumstance, Habern has asked that former … Continue reading →

Veteran journalist Si Dunn wrote a short description of The Trials of Eroy Brown for The Dallas Morning News for its Texas and Southwest Books Roundup: A prizewinning journalist has dug deeply and impressively into a double killing that still … Continue reading →

Michael King, political editor of the Austin Chronicle has written a pice about “Trials” that is one of the best summaries to date. Of Eroy Brown’s acquittals, he writes: Even a generation later, those verdicts seem almost unbelievable. But the … Continue reading →

Berkeley law professor Jonathan Simon recently posted about Adam Gopnik’s essay in the New Yorker about mass incarceration. Both writers commented on Robert Perkinson’s sweeping history of Texas prisons, Texas Tough. Perkinson was one of the first readers of the … Continue reading →