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The Posthumous Exoneration of Tim Cole & the Need for Eyewitness ID Reform

By Steve Hall

Rick Casey has devoted two recent columns to the case.  First, "What's the matter with Texas DAs?.When Lubbock police sought Baytown resident Michele Mallin's help in identifying the man who raped her 25 years ago when she was a 20-year-old Texas Tech student, they violated virtually every safeguard now recommended to minimize false identifications.And:But all those mistakes in witness identification were then and not now, right? I wish. When an Austin district judge held a hearing in February that laid out all the mistakes and confirmed that the result was that Timothy Cole died an innocent man in prison, Lubbock County District Attorney Matthew Powell didn't bother to attend, though he was in Austin on other business...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).