July 4, 2017 - Shelby County Criminal defense lawyers Deck Jones and Jeff Adams stood upon the Historic 1885 Courthouse June 30, 2017 to celebrate the significance of Independence Day as a part of a statewide effort by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
Lynda K. Russell was scheduled to participate; however, she was unable to attend due to another engagement.
Jones explained for the audience attending the event, 241 years ago there was a committee appointed by the Continental Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence, it was a five person committee, and out of that committee they appointed Thomas Jefferson to write the first instrument. After about three weeks, he came forward with that instrument to which the committee made some changes, and made a final draft which they presented to Congress the end of June 1776.
Additional changes were added and it was once again presented to Congress on July 3, 1776. Between that time and July 4, 1776 the members of the Continental Congress signed the document and started publishing it on July 5. In honor of that, the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association had representatives read the Declaration of Independence in 254 counties across Texas.
