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Another Take on the Criminal Justice Integrity Unit Meeting

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Jordan Smith also has, "Integrity Unit Members Hunker Down," in the Austin Chronicle.Although the members of the new Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit met for the first time Aug. 6, Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Barbara Hervey, who created the unit, says that members are already hard at work, looking at a myriad of issues that effect the quality of criminal justice in Texas. Responding to years of complaints about problems with the state's criminal justice system and the growing number of wrongfully imprisoned men, most exonerated through DNA testing, Hervey in June announced the creation of the unit, which she hopes will serve not only to educate but to help suggest legislative reforms to the state's much maligned justice system...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).