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Innocence bills, exoneree testmony, well received at Senate Criminal Justice Committee

The hearing on all the innocence-related legislation today in the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee, I thought, was a rousing success (at least from the standpoint of the Innocence Project of Texas Policy Director) with scarce little opposition to most of the reform legislation proposed.Only the Houston police union opposed the eyewitness ID legislation (the first bill up if you're watching the video), but prosecutors and lots of other groups supported the compromise and the bill passed out of committee unanimously. (The Dallas DA's office actually suggested the bill was too weak!) Also passing with no opposition was Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa's bill requiring corroboration for jailhouse informants.Chairman Whitmire's SB 1976 improving access to courts for post-conviction actual-innocence writs based on new scientific evidence was equally well received...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).