Marie Munier, a former assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas, earned the distinction of having a 2014 letter she wrote informing a woman she had been erroneously prosecuted and convicted of a drug offense featured in The New York Times Magazine posted this week.
In the accompanying story about how roadside drug tests send hundreds of innocent people to jail, the writers credit Munier, who returned for nine months in 2014 after retiring from the DA’s office six years earlier, with helping examine the wrongful prosecutions and attempting to contact the defendants who were sent to jail in error. According to the story, 119 wrongful convictions of this sort in Harris County have been overturned.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
