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Failing the Test

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That's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle regarding the Supreme Court's Osborne ruling.  The editorial is subtitled, "Court ruling denies inmates the right to DNA evidence."Texas is not known as a liberal state when it comes to criminal justice. Yet back in 2001, Lone Star prosecutors and defense attorneys came together to back state legislation requiring the preservation of biological evidence in criminal cases and to allow convicted inmates the right to petition for DNA testing that could conclusively establish their guilt or innocence. The result is that DNA testing has exonerated 38 wrongfully convicted Texans. Nationwide, the Innocence Project, a prisoner advocacy group, says the tests have established the innocence of 240 inmates serving time for crimes they did not commit, including at least 17 facing execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).