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Michael Landauer at the Dallas News wrote a telling post reacting to Jeff Blackburn's lament on Grits while I was gone about why eyewitness ID reforms, which seem obvious to anyone paying attention, can't seem to gain traction. He declares that:Candidate interviews have been interesting this year in a very unexpected way. Two examples. In one race for a criminal court, a longtime prosecutor talked about his stellar record. He never lost a case, essentially. I asked him if, knowing that we have had wrongful convictions, that bothered him. He went silent for about 15 seconds and offered a very thoughtful response. He was confident the system worked in almost every case, but he did have some eyewitness-only cases, and those troubled him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 19, 2010 (boomark / email).