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Indigent defense/post-conviction DNA testing news

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Several items caught my eye from the Task Force on Indigent Defense, including two related to post-conviction DNA testing:First, Gov. Perry's Criminal Justice Division has allocated $300K for grants (pdf) to the state's four innocence "clinics" at public law schools. Welcome news.Also, last month the task force published a survey (pdf) in conjunction with the Texas District and County Attorneys Association which reported 929 requests for counsel for post-conviction DNA testing since 2001, with 500 of them out of Dallas thanks to the District Attorney's comprehensive review of old cases there. The survey seems incomplete, though, since the prosecutors self-reported just 18 total DNA exonerations since 2001 (Question 7), and we know there have been more than that in Dallas County alone...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).

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