Dallas (1080 KRLD) - A former Dallas County prosecutor has surrendered his law license after the State Bar of Texas found he withheld evidence that led to the wrongful convictions of two men.
The State Bar concluded that Rick Jackson failed to inform defense attorneys of Dennis Allen and Stanley Mozee, about evidence that could have cleared the two men at their 2000 capital murder trials. The two spent 14 years in prison. Both were convicted of the murder of a Dallas pastor.
Jackson's lawyer Bob Hinton says his client did nothing wrong.
"There was nothing to merit withholding something. They went to trial and the jury spoke. There was nothing that wasn't disclosed," Hinton says.
Hinton is confident that if Jackson fought the allegations he'd come out on top, but says his client has neither the money nor the heart to do it.
Jackson retired in 2013.
Allen and Mozee had their convictions vacated and were released from prison in 2014.
The Innocence Project of Texas filed a 196-page grievance with the State Bar in 2018 against Jackson.