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Too Many Errors in Justice Process

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That's the title of a Missouri  OpEd in today's Springfield News-Leader by Stephen Wyse, a Missouri attorney and former police officer.  LINKMartin Luther King, Jr., said "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Other states have enacted "Innocence Commissions" or taken legislative steps to correct structural flaws in the criminal justice system that permit innocent citizens to be wrongly convicted. President Bush's state of the union speech called for reform of crime labs errors by which citizens were wrongly imprisoned. After recommendations of the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment, state Senator Barack Obama passed legislation enacting reforms to prevent the innocent from being wrongly executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).