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Harris County Hearing Convenes

By Steve Hall

There are news articles and editorials, today.  Let's begin with news coverage; editorials in the next post. "Hearing on death penalty starts in Houston court," is the latest AP report.  It's unsigned and via Google News. Experts on eyewitness identification, confessions and forensic evidence are among those expected to testify at an unusual hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty that starts Monday in the Texas county that has sent more convicts to death row than any other. Harris County Judge Kevin Fine ordered the hearing last spring in response to a routine defense motion that judges typically reject. Fine, who stands out as a Democratic judge in deeply Republican Texas, declined to be interviewed but has indicated he's aware of recent exonerations of death row inmates and his decision in the case will "boil down to whether or not an innocent person has actually been executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 06, 2010 (boomark / email).