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The Work of the Tim Cole Panel

By Steve Hall

On Sunday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram carried the editorial, "Legal safeguards recommended by Timothy Cole advisory panel." For a while, every time the family of Tim Cole went to Austin or held a local news conference to declare his innocence, they took along a large photo of the smiling bright-eyed young man.They wanted state officials and the world to see the man who was convicted of a horrible crime -- rape of a fellow Texas Tech student in 1985 -- and died in prison before he could be exonerated.Cole is the face of the wrongly convicted in Texas, and his name is synonymous with exonerations. And: Last week, the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions spent its last meeting by adopting a 50-page draft report that included proposals that covered a wide range of changes to current procedures in criminal investigations...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 19, 2010 (boomark / email).