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Live Blogging the Summit

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I'll be live blogging Senator Rodney Ellis' Summit on Wrongful Convictions.  It's just starting with Senator Ellis making introductory comments and recognizing the dozen or so House and Senate members attending the Summit. The Summit is being webcast, here, on channel 1. A group of nine exonerees is at a front table.  James Lee Woodard just started, as they introduce themselves.  Every one of these stories is a powerful testimony to flaws that led to wrongful convictons. The thirty-one desks in the Senate chamber are filled with legislators, judges from the Court of Criminal Appeals, law enforcement personnel, staff from innocence projects, policy makers, judges, State Bar of Texas officials (former SBoT President Martha Dickie), and criminal justice reform advocates(Edwin Colfax and Andrea Marsh) ...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).