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Eyewitness ID Reform Measure Passes House Committee

By Steve Hall

"Eyewitness ID legislation aims to prevent conviction of the innocent in Texas," is the Dallas Morning News report written by Erin Mulvaney. A bill meant to streamline eyewitness identification procedures, approved Tuesday by a House committee, would bring the state a step closer to fixing a key problem with the criminal justice system, advocates said. Under the legislation, police departments would have to adopt uniform standards for eyewitness identification. The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved the bill unanimously after hearing from criminal justice officials and emotional testimony from half a dozen exonerees from Dallas, who spent years in prison for crimes they did not commit. The measure will now go to the full House for consideration...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).