An ex-prosecutor who withheld evidence in a 1999 murder case and caused two innocent men to spend 15 years in prison has resigned his law license rather than face a lawyer discipline case.

Richard E. Jackson’s resignation came after the State Bar of Texas sued him for professional misconduct related to his work prosecuting Stanley Mozee and Dennis Allen for the murder of Rev. Jesse Borns Jr., said the documents in the resignation case.

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