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Texas Lawyer Coverage of Integrity Unit Meeting

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Mary Alice Robbins writes, "Spot Checks of DNA Labs on the Table at TCJIU Meeting," for Texas Lawyer.With the state Legislature's next regular session beginning in less than five months, lawmakers on the recently formed Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit have urged other TCJIU members to reach consensus on reforms and start the ball rolling on bills. If reforms in the criminal justice system need state money, the unit must start working on the funding needs now, state Rep. Jim McReynolds, D-Lufkin, and a TCJIU member, told the group during its inaugural meeting Aug. 5. "We can't wait until January," McReynolds said. State Sen. Rodney Ellis, a Houston Democrat who chairs the New York City-based Innocence Project's board of directors and is a member of the TCJIU, said the unit should ask Gov...continue to full post

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