Built from the inside out.

Andrew Kizer didn't find this mission in a law office or a research lab. He found it from the inside — mapping the failures of the justice system while living inside one of its outcomes.

From within prison walls, Kizer authored two legal reference works that have become resources for post-conviction advocates across Texas: Texas Writ of Habeas Corpus: 11.073 and Texas Post-Conviction DNA Testing. Through that work, a pattern became undeniable: case after case built on forensic methods that science had already discredited. Convictions that survived not because of evidence — but because the system had no mechanism to look back.

WCI is the answer to that gap. It takes the cases the system stopped looking at and examines them again — with the rigor, the tools, and the scientific understanding available now rather than whenever the case happened to close. Where science and justice have drifted apart, WCI documents it, so the case has a path back into the light. And nothing stands as a finding until qualified human experts have reviewed it.

This is not a project built from the outside looking in. It is built from lived experience, legal scholarship, and one persistent belief: that the truth, properly examined, still has the power to set people free.