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More Coverage of the Tim Cole Panel Report

By Steve Hall

The Austin Chronicle, our independent, alt-weekly hitting the streets today, has, "Panel Targets Roots of Wrongful Convictions."  It's written by Jordan Smith. The Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions made five major proposals last week for lawmakers heading into next year's legislative session. The panel, named for the state's first posthumously exonerated man (he died in prison while serving time for a rape he did not commit), was tasked with considering the causes of wrongful conviction and making recommendations to avoid future miscarriages of justice. Among those were recommendations that state police agencies record all suspect interrogations and adopt model policies for handling eyewitness identification procedures...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).