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The Daily Texan on Judge Fine: Bad Judgement

By "Persian Cowboy"

The following is Bobby Cervantes's piece for the Daily Texan Editorial Board.When Judge Kevin Fine, a state judge in Houston, ruled last week that the death penalty in Texas was unconstitutional, the blowback from the state?s conservative brass was swift. Statements from Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbot and a slew of other high-profile pro-capital punishment activists decried the judge?s ruling as ?an act of unabashed judicial activism,? promising that the ruling would fail an appeal in a higher court. In his opinion, Fine cited the vaunted Innocence Project, a nationwide effort out of Yeshiva University in New York that works to exonerate the wrongly convicted. While the project has freed some 251 people so far, perhaps its most important role ? especially in Texas ? is to bring to light the careless and illegal missteps that have led to years-long miscarriages of justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 10, 2010 (boomark / email).