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Texas 10-12K prison beds short under Senate, House budgets, eyewitness ID clears committee

Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman had good coverage of Tuesday's Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing, where I spent my day (on behalf of the Innocence Project of Texas) waiting to testify on legislation to require law enforcement agencies to create policies on eyewitness identification procedures and authorize a statewide model policy implementing best practices. See Mike's coverage:Exonerees support eyewitness ID rulesReport: Prison cuts could cause bed shortage in two yearsFaulty eyewitness IDs responsible for hundreds of false convictions Sen. Rodney Ellis' eyewitness ID bill passed out of committee unanimously, with an an inconsequential cleanup amendment from Sen. Joan Huffman, just as Chairman Pete Gallego's companion bill passed out of House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee last week...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).