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Dallas News backs innocence commission

Reacting to last week's "Innocence Summit" (see Grits coverage here and here), the Dallas News on Sunday editorialized in favor of the state of Texas creating and "innocence commission," an idea that I think has merit but which is also vague enough to become a mere do-nothing PR stunt if it's not given sufficient authority.The News editorial focused on stories of the nine exonerees in attendance at the event, who collectively spent more than 161 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit. Said the News' editorial board: Some told their stories with passion and resolve, others with sadness. The facts chill to the bone. They reveal how scant or sketchy evidence, faulty witness identification, faulty forensics and gamesmanship by prosecutors helped railroad innocent people ? and let the guilty get away...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).