Harris County prosecutors have agreed that Michael Clark, who is serving time for a 2011...
There was urgency to move on the case, Clark's defense attorney said, due to Clark's failing health and the risk posed by him continuing to be confined in a Texas prison without air conditioning during the summer months.
Clark has maintained his innocence and says the do-rag, which he sometimes called a cap, once belonged to him but he gave it to a man who went on to confess to the fatal convenience store shooting to two others, according to court records. A 2019 photograph of Michael Clark, who has been jailed for a decade in the murder of a convenience store clerk, and his sisters Donna K. Clark, left, and Vera Clark. The public defender's office has sought a new trial for Michael Clark.The surveillance footage shown to jurors was too grainy for anyone to identify who killed Hussain, Burdette said. She said that no one testified they had seen Clark at the shooting scene either — three and a half miles from where he had been paroled.
Johnson appeared taken aback Friday morning when the lawyers came to him more than two weeks before the scheduled July 12 hearing to address the case. He had yet to read all their filings but Clark’s lawyer cited the defendant’s health and living conditionsBob Wicoff, section chief for post-conviction writs at the Harris County Public Defender’s office, talks on the phone with Michael Clark on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in Houston.
“I’m at a lost of words right now,” Clark said. “It’s a blessing to me for his case to get back before the court.” He would not elaborate on that argument and noted that the court will address it later, as well as Wicoff’s assertion that Clark had ineffective counsel in the initial case. The prosecution also disagrees with that assessment.
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