The Case of Roman Flores
In 1998, Roman Flores was accused of aiding a 14-year-old boy with robbing and killing a man on a parking lot in Houston, Texas. Roman was convicted of capital murder and given a life sentence in 2000.
We took Roman’s case in 2020 and have been working on it ever since. We strongly believe that Roman is innocent of capital murder and that we can prove that.
In July 2024, the court reopened Roman’s case on issues of innocence, false testimony, a Brady violation, and ineffective assistance of counsel. We will post updates on the case on this page.
Clinton Young’s
Case
In April 2003, when Clinton Young was only nineteen years old, he was convicted of two murders which took place in November 2001 in Texas, and was sentenced to death. During Clinton’s trial, his three co-defendants testified against Clinton and received very lenient sentences in return for their testimony (which later turned out to be false). Clinton has always maintained his innocence in relation to both murders.
In September 2021, after 18 years on death row in solitary confinement, Clinton’s conviction and death sentence was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Clinton was granted a new trial because of egregious prosecutorial misconduct. It was discovered that the prosecutor in Clinton’s case, who was prosecuting Clinton during trial, direct appeals and post-conviction proceedings, was simultaneously and in secret working as a law clerk for the judges presiding over Clinton’s case.
In January 2022, Clinton was released on bond with the help of the Foundation. Clinton is the first former death row inmate who made it out on bond. In August 2022, Clinton was arrested for the same murder he was already indicted and out on bond for. After 2 weeks in jail, the Foundation got Clinton out on bond again, and Clinton currently awaits his new trial in freedom.
Visit our news page to learn about the most recent developments in Clinton’s case.
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Stolen Freedom: the Case of Roman Flores
Since 2023, Austin-based filmmaker Jaden Patterson has been making a documentary about Roman’s case: Stolen Freedom.
This true-crime documentary investigates the flaws in Roman’s conviction and what really happened in January 1998.
The documentary is not finished, because Roman is not yet free, but the filmmaker will continue his work until Roman’s story comes to an end.
The Case of Clinton Young
The Foundation was established in 2014 in the Netherlands and in 2020 in Texas to help Clinton Young. Clinton was convicted of two murders in 2003 and sentenced to death. He has always maintained his innocence, but was almost executed in 2017.
In 2019, it was discovered that the prosecutor in Clinton’s case was also, in secret, working as a paid law clerk for the judge presiding over Clinton’s case. Because of this huge ethical violation, Clinton’s conviction was overturned in 2021. With the help of our supporters, we were able to fund Clinton’s new trial attorneys and subsequently secure his release on bond in January 2022. Clinton is currently still awaiting a retrial.
Other Cases
The Foundation works on several other capital murder cases out of Texas. These include both death and non-death capital cases. We have not yet published anything on our other cases, but when the time is right, we will do so on this page.
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