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Dumb on Crime Means Broken Lives

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That's the title of an editorial in Sunday's Austin American-Statesman.  LINKSomething is terribly wrong with the Texas justice system, which has sent scores of innocent people to prison for crimes committed by others. It is especially tragic that Texas has the capability and technology to prevent (or discover) errors that lead to wrongful convictions but lacks the leadership and will to use it. What other conclusion can be drawn in the face of the dozens of DNA exonerations - now totaling 33 - of wrongfully convicted people who languished in Texas prisons for years, some nearly three decades. And those exonerations don?t include people cleared by other means, such as the Tulia residents who were convicted on the false testimony of a law enforcement officer...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).