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Hervey on innocence proposals: "We're past meet and discuss"

After speaking this afternoon with Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Barbara Hervey about the CCA's new Criminal Justice Integrity Unit (CJIU), described yesterday on Grits here, I think there's room to hope the new body will spearhead an important range of modest reforms. (I appreciated her personally calling me back about it.)This new "unit" definitely represents a shift in the terms of debate among Texas' top judicial circles. The CJIU could be a great thing so long as state leaders don't acquiesce in the idea that the court's new reform body will solve all the problems related to convicting innocent people.On some matters under the purview of the court, Judge Hervey said she's confident change can occur rather quickly. "We're past meet and discuss," she told me, "we want some of them accomplished...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).