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Controversy Over Texas Attorneys Charging Questionable Fees in Wrongful Conviction Cases
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2010
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2010, page 12
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Organizing,
Lobbying,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Attorney Client,
Attorney Misconduct,
Wrongful Conviction.
Location:
Texas.
On September 17, 2009, Steven Charles Phillips, a former Texas prisoner who spent 24 years in prison on a rape charge before being exonerated in 2008, filed suit in Dallas County district court against his former attorney, Kevin Glasheen, and his attorney’s law firm, Glasheen, Valles, Inderman ...
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