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The Tim Cole Advisory Panel Report: Too Much Ado, Not Enough Done

Hey everybody, Jeff Blackburn here. Scott asked me to do some guest blogging during his well-deserved vacation. This my first post. Be as hard on me as you want. On Wednesday of last week, my good friend Ana Yáñez-Correa reported on the meeting of the Task Force on Indigent Defense that had just happened. She called the meeting and what came out of it a ?Great Day for Justice in Texas?. I was at that meeting. I have to tell you that it didn?t make me feel warm, fuzzy or full of pride for Texas. I handled the Tim Cole case and represent his family, and if what happened at the Court of Criminal Appeals last Wednesday was a ?great day? then we are all getting way too accustomed to way too little. Ana is a strong thinker, a rock-solid activist and a very close colleague of mine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).