Cook wrote Chasing Justice, which was published by HarperCollins in 2008, that details his conviction, the widespread prosecutorial abuses which led to it, and the battle to prove his innocence.
In an advance blurb for the memoir, former FBI Director and Federal Judge William S. Sessions noted, "Kerry Max Cook has written a brutal but compelling account of his 22 years on Texas’s death row for a murder he did not commit.
Cook and his lawyer Marc McPeak filed a motion to perform DNA tests on physical evidence found at the murder scene.
On June 6, 2016, prosecutors agreed to drop the charges against Kerry Max Cook; this was motivated in part by James Mayfield's admission that he had lied about not having sex with the victim for weeks.
[7] On November 14, 2024, Cook filed a lawsuit against the City of Tyler, Smith County, and multiple current and former law enforcement officials over "violations of due process, malicious prosecution, destruction of evidence, and conspiracy" relating to his conviction [8]