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: StandDown Texas Project

Notes From the Texas Legislature

By Steve Hall

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"Bill to reduce wrongful convictions passes House," is the title of the AP report by Jay Root, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The legislation is HB 215. The Texas House, aiming to reduce the number of wrongful convictions, approved legislation Wednesday that would require law enforcement agencies to begin standardizing the way eyewitnesses identify criminal suspects.The unanimously approved bill would require police to adopt written policies to determine how they conduct photographic or live lineups. Agencies would be encouraged, but not required, to develop blind procedures whereby the person administering a live lineup doesn't know who the suspect is. Judges still would be given wide discretion on what evidence to admit in court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).