Eyewitness Identification Bill Passes House Committee
Unanimous vote sends eyewitness ID bill on to full House
"...live and photo lineups to try to prevent wrongful identifications. As it stands, faulty eyewitness ID is the leading..."
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Feb. 22, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith
APD Among Texas Police Agencies With Poor Eyewitness ID Procedures
The Justice Project says Texas police agencies are way behind in implementing best practices that can decrease the incidence of mistaken identification.
"...That's troubling news for criminal justice reformers: faulty eyewitness identification has played a role in 75% of the..."
Nov. 19, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith
Eyewitness ID
Will Senate Bill 117 prevent wrongful convictions?
"...Will new eyewitness ID procedures actually help prevent faulty identifications in criminal..."
April 10, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Exonerees Testify About Mistaken Eyewitness IDs
Police departments statewide must adopt new lineup procedures
"...hearing on the newly developed model policy for police eyewitness identification procedures. The draft policy, developed by the Bill..."
Dec. 9, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Another Wrongful Identification And No End In Sight
Another man goes free in Dallas
"...criminal justice – especially as it relates to faulty eyewitness IDs. The vast majority of Texas' wrongful convictions involve..."
May 11, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith
Broken Justice
Wrongly convicted exonerees come to the Texas Capitol
"...In the Texas criminal justice system, eyewitness misidentification is by far the leading cause of wrongful..."
March 11, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Now Serving ... Time
Robert Conran sat down to dinner at Furr's, and walked out in handcuffs. After four years in prison on a shaky conviction, he's got a chance of parole -- then he faces deportation
"...He was convicted on the testimony of a single eyewitness, a Furr's cashier -- who said she recognized him..."
June 29, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith
APD Scores Low on Police Lineup Procedures
The Justice Project cites police department shortcomings when it comes to eyewitness identification of suspects
"...That's troubling news for criminal justice reformers: Faulty eyewitness identification has played a role in 75% of the..."
Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Long Vindication
After 35 years and a lengthy sentence for robbery, Ronnie Barrs remains determined to prove his innocence
"...go to realizing, things do happen like this." Uncertain Eyewitnesses..."
Jan. 15, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Fairness, Consistency, Safety
Rosemary Lehmberg defends her record
"...[Ben] Salazar, Carlos Lavernia. Those were the two mistaken identification cases. We actually had three that were brought to..."
Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature
Realigning Police Lineups
New study shows that changing lineup procedure reduces mistaken ID'ing
"...Faulty eyewitness identification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions –..."
Sept. 23, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Is Memory Hijacking Texas' Justice System?
Eyewitness identification methods based on false assumptions about memory are putting innocent people behind bars
"...who addressed the CJIU during the morning session. Mistaken identification is the biggest culprit in wrongful conviction, he says...."
Nov. 7, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Panel Targets Roots of Wrongful Convictions
Recommendations on improving witness identification and evidence testing head to the Lege
"...all suspect interrogations and adopt model policies for handling eyewitness identification procedures. Another proposal recommends that state lawmakers reform..."
Sept. 3, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Double Jeopardy
The state of Texas jailed Cuban exile Carlos Lavernia for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. Now the INS might send him back to Cuba.
"...victim of the most common cause of wrongful convictions: eyewitness error...."
Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith
Blood on Texas' Hands
A new Columbia Law Review article demonstrates how the state may have executed an innocent man
"...to the scene of the crime, where a lone eyewitness, Kevan Baker, said De Luna looked like the man..."
May 18, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Innocence Project Seeks Justice
Timothy Cole died before his false conviction could be overturned, but his family – and the victim of the real attacker – still seek closure
"...state's case against Cole, including serious problems with the eyewitness identification procedures that prompted Mallin to finger Cole as..."
Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Actual Innocence
Austinite wrongfully convicted for a decade-old school prank hopes to clear his name
"...Hill – both denied being the shooter, and Claypool's eyewitness identification was of Hill. "It happened exactly the way..."
July 29, 2011 News Feature by Caitlin Meredith
Is Death Unconstitutional?
Judge to consider whether Texas death penalty risks innocent lives
"...factors laid out in the motion are issues with eyewitness identification procedures, with forensic science, with the reliability of..."
Dec. 3, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith
After Innocence
This documentary raises staggering questions about virtually every aspect of the criminal-justice system as it follows what happens to several convicts who have been exonerated by DNA evidence submitted by the Innocence Project.
"...20 for rape on the basis of a shaky eyewitness identification – even though the victim reported her attacker..."
Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Cole's Posthumous Exoneration Is First for Texas
In clearing Timothy Cole's name, Travis Co. judge does what Lubbock officials refused to do
"...that Blackburn said they found were those of the eyewitness identification procedures that led Mallin to finger the wrong..."
Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith
A Dose of Integrity for Texas Criminal Justice
The Court of Criminal Appeals has created an Integrity Unit – but can the CCA really be part of the solution when it's so much a part of the problem?
"...lawyers provided to indigent defendants, implementing procedures to improve eyewitness identification (an insidious problem implicated in a number of..."
June 27, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
A new law review article raises questions about the Carlos De Luna case
"...to the scene of the crime, where a lone eyewitness, Kevan Baker, said De Luna looked like the man..."
May 15, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith
New Policy Weighed for Police Lineups
A model for seeing past faulty eyewitness IDs
"...police policy for conducting live or photo lineups with eyewitnesses to crime...."
Nov. 11, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...South Lamar based on the testimony of a single eyewitness – the cafeteria cashier, who said that when Conran..."
Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature
Conran Deported?
Robert Conran's prison ordeal is finally over, but now he must struggle against deportation.
"...was convicted based on the testimony of a single eyewitness -- the cafeteria's cashier, who said that when Conran..."
April 5, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Naked City
Macy's to close its Highland store and Holly lawsuit dismissed
"...the latest exonerations show there is a problem with misidentification of suspects by witnesses in Texas, and it's encouraging..."
Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature
Targeting Wrongful Convictions
Bills attempt to right the wrongs that put Texas at the forefront of wrongful convictions
"...police was biased and that police manipulated the tentative identification of Cole made by rape victim Michelle Mallin to..."
April 17, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Life in Prison for Hemp
José Peña brought some roadside weeds home from Kansas. Cops decided it was reefer, and a Texas court sentenced him to life in prison – without the evidence. It took a decade for Peña to get back some of the pieces of his life.
"...evidence. Youngblood was subsequently convicted based on the boy's eyewitness identification. When Youngblood appealed, the U.S. Supreme Court eventually..."
March 16, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith
A Quarrel With the Status Quo
Charlie Baird on criminal justice, equity, and the Travis County D.A.
"...of that is Randall Dale Adams, where you've got eyewitnesses that drove by and said they saw him shoot..."
Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature
Point Austin: Heat and Light
Baird vs. Lehmberg off to a blazing start
"...Project, with the county's drug courts, and on reforming eyewitness identification procedures. She won applause by reminding the partisan..."
