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The Dallas Morning News Series - DNA Exonerations

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The Dallas Morning News three-part series, DNA Exonerations, concludes today with the article,"Eyewitnesses still play key roles in cases where DNA, other evidence is missing."  The series has been reported by Jennifer Emily and Steve McGonigle.The fallibility of eyewitness testimony revealed by DNA exonerations in Dallas County and nationwide is not a relic of the past. Police and prosecutors still depend on the same discredited identification procedures to ensure convictions today. Police use these techniques in a variety of crimes from murders to robberies. The difference between today's cases and the 19 exonerations involving sexual assaults is that often there is no DNA to ensure guilt or innocence. "We've shown how unreliable eyewitness testimony is in sexual assault cases," said Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University law school...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).