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Bexar DA names new head of Conviction Integrity Unit FacebookTwitterEmail Matthew Howard is the new director of the Conviction Integrity Unit of the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office./ A team of prosecutors tasked with checking the fairness of thousands of convictions obtained by the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has a new director. Matthew Howard now is in charge of the Conviction Integrity Unit, District Attorney Joe D. Gonzales announced Thursday. Howard, 33, previously an assistant district attorney, joined the DA’s office in 2013 and has worked with the CIU since 2015. He replaces his former boss, Alison Dahlberg, who left to work for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin to “pursue her first love of appellate work,” Gonzales said during a Zoom news conference. ....