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Texas Justice System Has Major Flaws

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial from the Sunday edition of the Corpus Christi Caller Times.  LINKFor the past three years in Texas, news reports have revealed that dozens of innocent people have been convicted of violent crimes they didn?t commit. At least 38 men in Texas spent decades in prison based on wrongful convictions and the state will now make compensation payments for these exonerees.The exonerations in Texas have resulted from the revolution that DNA testing has done for the criminal justice system since 1989. They confirm the fact that something has gone terribly wrong in the prosecution of oh so many cases in Texas.One DNA exoneree is Thomas McGowan, who will soon be paid $1.8 million by the state for spending 23 years in prison for a rape and robbery he didn?t commit...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).