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Dallas County's Review of Integrity of Convictions

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"Dallas district attorney steps up scrutiny of cases where DNA can't prove innocence," is the title of a report by Jennifer Emily and Steve McGonigle in the Sunday Dallas Morning News. For 16 wrongly convicted defendants in Dallas County, DNA testing was the key that set them free after years ? even decades ? in prison. Now, because of the doubt those exonerations raised, Dallas prosecutors are taking an unprecedented look at convictions in which DNA evidence cannot conclusively prove guilt or innocence. And that may lead to a significant departure from the way prosecutors traditionally have responded to claims of innocence by inmates. DNA cases "are the very tiniest tip of a gigantic iceberg of injustice in Texas," said Jeff Blackburn, an Amarillo civil rights attorney who also serves as chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).