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Dog scent lineups discredited at TX Court of Criminal Appeals

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Outstanding news for those concerned about the use of shoddy forensics in criminal courtrooms: As of today, dog-scent lineups are no longer adequate to secure a criminal conviction in Texas. In a move that long-time court-watchers may find shocking, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today reversed a murder conviction which had resulted in a 75-year sentence and ordered the defendants acquittal based on the unreliability of dog-scent lineups by Deputy Keith Pikett from Fort Bend County, whose bizarre and unreliable practices are well-known to long-time readers of this blog. (See initial coverage from AP and the Austin Statesman) Richard Winfrey, Sr. was was represented on appeal by Dallas attorney Shirley Baccus-Lobel (who in the interest of full disclosure happens to be a boardmember at one of my former employers, the Innocence Project of Texas)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).

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