News Coverage of CCA Order in the Charles Hood case (standdown.typepad.com)
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Hood future rests on appeals court (www.lewisvilleleader.com)
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered District Judge Greg Brewer to recommend whether a convicted killer's claim of judicial bias was raised in a timely manner.
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Judge-prosecutor affair admission may have come too late in Charles Dean Hood death row case (www.dallasnews.com)
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has sent the capital murder case of death row inmate Charles Dean Hood back to a district court yet again on a procedural issue.
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Appeals court tells panel to find out why inmate's appeal was filed 18 years later (www.star-telegram.com)
Texas’ highest criminal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a Collin County trial court to examine why a Death Row inmate’s attorneys waited 18 years before filing an appeal asserting that the... More
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Study Finds Few Texas Police Departments Have Written Eyewitness Procedures (www.innocenceproject.org)
A new study released today by the Justice Project found that only 12% of Texas law enforcement agencies responding to a survey said they had written policies for lineup procedures
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Eyewitness News: Surprise, Most Texas PD's Don't Have Lineup Policies (blogs.dallasobserver.com)
In August 2007, as it was becoming evident that Dallas was becoming "ground zero for criminal justice change," in the words of Innocence Project of Texas founder Jeff Blackburn, Glenna Whitley wrote... More
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Eyewitness Identification Procedures in Texas (standdown.typepad.com)
The Justice Project is set to hold a news conference shortly in the Texas State Capitol, in the Senate Media Room
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State senator takes aim at wrongful convictions (www.kvue.com)
Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis has introduced a bill that would require all Texas police departments to adhere to a formal written protocol on how to handle the questioning of eyewitnesses.
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New bill addresses wrongful convictions (www.kxan.com)
Some lawmakers think a new bill filed can help decrease the number of wrongful convictions in Texas.
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Only 12% of Texas law agencies report written eyewitness identification policies (crimeblog.dallasnews.com)
Steve McGonigle, co-author of The Dallas Morning News' recent series on Dallas County wrongful convictions overturned by DNA evidence, reports on a recent study about law enforcements' use of eye... More
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