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Eyewitness ID Reform Moving Forward in Texas Legislature

By Steve Hall

Rick Casey's latest Houston Chronicle column is, "Eyewitness bill 'a good start,' but ..." Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia's School of Law, has a two-part message for Houston State Sen. Rodney Ellis. The first part is that Ellis has made "a good start" with his bill to cut down the number of wrongful convictions in Texas by improving the way police obtain witness identifications. The bill passed the Senate Wednesday 30-0. The second part is that unless we're careful, Ellis' bill could make things worse. Garrett's book, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, will be published next month by Harvard University Press. Garrett spent more than four years poring over the trial transcripts and other documents relating to the first 250 convicts cleared by DNA evidence...continue to full post

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