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Non-DNA cases the future of innocence in Dallas, but Bexar stuck in the past

Now that the Dallas DA's conviction Integrity Unit has mostly vetted the old DNA samples, they're starting to look through possible innocence cases in cases without DNA, which are much more numerous but also harder to definitively prove. Here's how the story in the Dallas News by Jennifer Emily opens ("Dallas County district attorney's conviction integrity unit to focus on non-DNA cases," May 23):It's been almost a year since the last DNA exoneree walked out of a Dallas County courtroom and into the world as a free man.The flood of exonerations in Dallas County, where since 2001 more wrongfully convicted people have been freed through DNA testing than anywhere else in the nation, is slowing to a trickle. There are only so many cases where genetic evidence is available to test...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 23, 2010 (boomark / email).