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Timothy Cole Panel on Wrongful Convictions Issues Report

By Steve Hall

The Report is available in Adobe .pdf format, as is a separate volume containing the Research.  At its meeting yesterday, the Task Force on Indigent Defense voted to send the report to the Governor, legislative leaders, and the Texas Judicial Council. Brandy Grissom writes, "Panel OKs Recommendations to Stop Wrongful Convictions," for the Texas Tribune.The recommendations come from the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions, a committee lawmakers established in 2009 to study how and why innocent Texans wind up in prison. The panel's namesake died of an asthma attack while serving time for a rape he did not commit. In Texas, 43 people have been exonerated by DNA evidence, more people than in any other state...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).