“I refuse to be defeated. I refuse to be treated less of a human than anyone else. God has given me the will to stand on that and move forward. I cried to God and He answered.”
SAN MARCOS — A ride on the Dallas North Tollway was normal for DeVonte Amerson. He had done it numerous times before, but April 29 was one for the books, as he received a call that would change life as he had known it: his capital murder case was dismissed.
He laughed as he recalled telling his mother, who was in a pilates class at the time: “Once she stepped out, she was like, ‘Call your granny right now.’ So, that’s where the chain of phone calls started.”
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