Darius Elam, who got life for aggravated robbery after questionable, paid HPD informant’s testimony in 1984, will have a hearing on December 7, 2022, in Judge Josh Hill’s Court. The hearing will be held at 9:00 a.m., 232 Criminal Court, 1201 Franklin St., 16th Floor, Houston, TX 77002.

To date, there are three things pointing to Elam’s innocence: a recanted paid jailhouse informant testimony, DNA testing excluding Elam, and an unidentified person’s DNA found at the crime scene.

Elam secured DNA testing in 2014 that excluded him as a contributor and found an unidentified person’s DNA. In 2019, a hearing was held regarding the DNA results. Although Elam was excluded as a DNA contributor, Judge Judge Hill' January 10, 2022 recommendation to the Court of Criminal Appeals denied Darius Elam’s application for Writ of Habeas Corpus regarding the DNA exclusion, and upheld the original guilty conviction.

In Judge Josh Hill’s failure to properly review all the evidence, he did not address the June 2021 Supplemental Writ regarding a recanted informant's testimony. The Texas Criminal Court of Appeals ordered the December 7 fact-finding hearing about the informant’s recanted statement because Judge Hill failed to rule on the supplementary writ regarding the informant’s recanted statement. 

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Details about the hearing are in the press release posted here www.honeybrownhope/announcements. For full details about the case, please visit www.honeybrownhope.org/dariuselam. For questions, please email honeybownhope@verizon.net.