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: StandDown Texas Project

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That's the title of a Sunday San Antonio Express-News editorial on the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit.  LINKInnocent people are locked up in Texas prisons for violent crimes they        did not commit.     We know this for a fact. We know it because since 1994, DNA evidence has overturned the wrongful convictions of 33 Texans. They served a combined 427 years behind bars instead of the criminals who committed rape and murder. James Lee Woodard is the latest citizen to be exonerated by DNA evidence. In April, he left prison after serving 27 years for a rape and murder perpetrated by someone else. Because of this track record and advances in DNA testing, the Editorial Board of the San Antonio Express-News has supported the creation of an innocence commission to review criminal cases statewide...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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