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Conflict Alert: Author accepts new gig promoting innocence policy reforms

A reader alerted me to the publication of a Texas House Research Organization interim report (pdf) on the subject of a proposed Innocence Commission and other reforms aimed at preventing false convictions. The HRO article gives a good overview for the uninitiated, as to the range of opinions and examples about what an "innocence commission" can become in its most useful incarnations or in its least effective ones. Those interested should give it a read.Speaking of innocence commission proposals, this is as good a time as any to inform readers (in the interest of full disclosure, since I've written on these subjects for many years) that I recently accepted a part-time consulting gig working with the Innocence Project of Texas to help them develop public policy aspects of their program (as distinct from their legal cases)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).