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State Commissions Seek to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

(July 20, 2009) Newly created innocence commissions in New York and Texas will join a growing list of state commissions working to prevent future injustice by learning from previous mistakes. Both states have high numbers of wrongful convictions; 38 Texans and 24 New York State residents have been proven innocent through DNA testing after serving years or decades in prison. Six other states ? California, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Connecticut ? have already established Innocence Commissions, also known as Criminal Justice Reform Commissions. Some of these state groups have already begun to recommend and help implement polices that improve eyewitness identification, reduce the prevalence of false confessions, establish statewide forensic oversight and more...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 20, 2009 (boomark / email).