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CCA Integrity Unit: Eyewitness ID legislation should be highest innocence priority

With all the recent bad publicity surrounding the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and its presiding judge, it's nice to find cause to mention them in a positive light, merited in this case by the release of a new report by the CCA's Criminal Justice Integrity Unit dubbed its 2008 Annual Report of Activities.The document was distributed to an email list of people who signed up at their meetings and is not available on the court's web site, I'm told by Judge Hervey's clerk, so I guess that makes its publication a Grits web exclusive. :)I may later go into other aspects of the report when I have more time, but for now wanted to point out what I considered the money quote from the whole document:TCJIU recognizes that one of the leading causes of false convictions is erroneous eyewitness identifications...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).