About the Author

Randy Schaffer, a criminal defense lawyer in Houston, Texas, graduated at the top of his class from the University of Texas Law School in 1973. He has tried cases in state and federal courts throughout Texas. He was named the Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyer of 1989 by the State Bar of Texas following his representation of Randall Dale Adams, the wrongly convicted death row inmate whose case became the subject of the movie, The Thin Blue Line and the book, Adams v. Texas.