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Editorial Support for Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit

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The Austin American-Statesman editorial is, "Major leap toward restoring justice."The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals took a huge step this week in restoring integrity and public confidence to the state?s broken justice system. Texas Criminal Appeals Judge Barbara Hervey announced the creation of an integrity unit to study and correct problems in the justice system that repeatedly produces wrongful convictions. That action signals a U-turn for a court that has been heavily criticized for rubbing-stamping convictions by Texas prosecutors rather than weighing the merits of the appeals it adjudicates. We?ve written many times over the years about how the state?s highest criminal court has focused too heavily on process at the expense of justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).