As a representative of her grandson Terreth Allen White’s estate, Bernice Boyd wanted to file a prisoner civil-rights suit against three Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison guards and a vocational nurse after White died in 2006 while incarcerated in a TDCJ unit.
Boyd had spent so much time trying to find a lawyer to take the case that by the time she contacted Houston solo Joyce Keating in 2008, the statute of limitations was set to expire in less than a month, says Keating.
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