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Exoneree testimony is powerful stuff

I spent all day yesterday at the Texas capitol on behalf of the Innocence Project of Texas prior to and during a lengthy House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee hearing in which testimony was heard regarding several key innocence-related bills, most notably eyewitness ID and compensation for false convictions (see coverage from AP).Committee Chair Pete Gallego sponsored the House version of the main eyewitness ID bill this session (SB 117/HB 3583), and he substituted agreed language from the Senate, avoiding what was shaping up before session to be a big catfight over that legislation. The compromise will require police departments to create policies that comply with a model policy that will be created by the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT) at Sam Houston State University...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).