He could have gone anywhere he wanted after being released from prison. However, Ronald Taylor had a message to give and went straight to Houston City Council after leaving court.

There he appealed for help for other innocent people still behind bars.

Ronnie Taylor wasted no time in letting his voice be heard to the highest levels of the city, whose police department was pivotal in putting him behind bars for the last 14 years.

Taylor came in a private entrance to City Hall and met with Mayor Bill White before council began. The tone of the meeting was set from the beginning with the prayer from Council Member Sue Lovell hoping that nothing like this happens again.

Taylor spent 14 years in prison for a tape he never committed. Only recently discovered DNA set him free.

DNA that initially Houston’s trouble crime lab said did not exist.

Taylor and attorney Barry Scheck from the Innocence Project arrived to a standing ovation.

Taylor did not have to go before council. But hopes his doing so will send a strong message.

Virtually every member of the council took the time to apologize to Taylor.

Many referring to a commitment to the recommendations of the Bromwich report into the trouble at the HPD crime lab.