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: StandDown Texas Project

The Court of Criminal Appeals and Election Day

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Janet Elliott reports, "Criminal appeals court race focuses on change," in today's Houston Chronicle.Problems in the criminal justice system, highlighted by a series of exonerations, are the top issue in this year's races for the Court of Criminal Appeals. Both incumbent judges and their challengers are talking about the need to improve the reliability of eyewitness identification and preserve DNA evidence. Three Republican judges are seeking re-election. Two of them face a Democrat and a Libertarian, and one faces a Libertarian only. While the candidates in these low-funded, down-ballot races still struggle for voters' attention, the debate this year concerns issues that go to the heart of whether the state's criminal justice system is broken...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).

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