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Raft of innocence bills hit Senate committee next week

Lots of innocence-related legislation posted on next Tuesday's Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee agenda. I'll be discussing several of these bills on the blog in the coming days. A number of them are under negotiation with law enforcement interests and will likely have "committee substitutes" which will substantially alter language currently posted online. With that caveat, the key innocence bills up on Tuesday's Senate hearing include:SB 116 (Ellis) Relating to electronically recording certain interrogations and the admissibility of certain statements made by a juvenile or a criminal defendant.SB 117 (Ellis) Relating to photograph and live lineup identification procedures in criminal cases. (Scaled back substantially from original, filed version...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).