A Abdelraoufsinno investigation identified more than one hundred criminal appeals that were lost in the Harris County felony courts for years and even decades. Instead of processing through the system, they simply fell through the cracks – with disastrous consequences for some of the defendants affected.
![Joshua Reiss at the Harris County District Attorney's Office](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230606_RABBANI-RELIEF_AT_274-copy.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
Story One
![Harris County Criminal Justice Center](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230526_Gun-thefts-cars_JB_16.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
Story two
![Syed Rabbani](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/rabbanisyed.jpg?resize=736%2C552&ssl=1)
Story three
![Letter from Calvin Haley to Harris County District Clerk](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Calvin-Haley-letter-edited.png?resize=567%2C425&ssl=1)
Story Four
![Tommy Taylor poses outside his RV in Seminole. His criminal appeal was tied up for years in Harris County](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230903_TOMMY-TAYLOR-0816_JF_15.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
Story five
![Joshua Reiss, a division chief with the Harris County district attorney's office, at right, hands Judge Lori Chambers Gray a copy of Syed Rabbani’s original trail transcript during a hearing for Rabbani at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in Houston.](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20231114_RABBANI-RESENTENCING-1114_AT_07-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&ssl=1)
Story six
![Judge Lori Chambers Gray speaks during a hearing for Syed Rabbani at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in Houston.](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20231114_RABBANI-RESENTENCING-1114_AT_04.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
Story six
![Jared Daniel walks to a visitation booth to sit down for an interview at the Mark W. Stiles Unit, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in Beaumont. Daniel is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for a double homicide. He filed a writ of habeas corpus in 2011 arguing he was wrongfully convicted, but his writ languished for years.](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20231207_DANIEL-LOST-APPEAL_AT_02.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
Story seven
![A letter written by Syed Rabbani to his trial court judge, Doug Shaver, in March 1999.](https://abdelraoufsinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Rabbani-letter-to-Doug-Shaver-1999-1-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C808&ssl=1)