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Innocence Man: Gallego propels raft of innocence bills to front of Criminal Jurisprudence line

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The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee has posted an agenda which includes three important pieces of innocence legislation carried by Chairman Pete Gallego:HB 215 Relating to photograph and live lineup identification procedures in criminal cases.HB 219 Relating to the electronic recording and admissibility of certain custodial interrogations.HB 220 Relating to procedures for applications for writs of habeas corpus based on relevant scientific evidence.State Sen. Rodney Ellis is carrying the first two on the senate side, while Senate Criminal Justice Chairman John Whitmire has filed a companion bill to HB 220. In the House, Gallego is Innocence Man! All three of these bills passed out of the same committee last session before dying in the hyperpartisan tumult over VoterID on the House floor, where they all sat on the Calendar as time expired in 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).