In RE COLTON LESTER v. the State of Texas

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS ══════════ No. 18-1041 ══════════ IN RE COLTON LESTER, RELATOR ══════════════════════════════════════════ ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS ══════════════════════════════════════════ JUSTICE BLACKLOCK, joined by JUSTICE BOYD as to Part I only, dissenting. No provision of the Tim Cole Act authorizes compensation in “egregious case[s] of the criminal-justice system gone wrong.” Ante at ___. Try as it might to make the Act conform to its sense of what Colton Lester deserves, the Court cannot alter the Act’s stubbornly narrow text or what the Court of Criminal Appeals…