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Verdict Is Still Out on Innocence as Defense

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That's the title of Lisa Falkenberg's latest column appearing in today's Houston Chronicle.  LINK  It continues a theme from an earlier column of the case of Larry Swearingen, noted in this post.Does innocence matter? When I posed that question in a column last week on death row inmate Larry Swearingen?s innocence claim in federal court, I was unaware of the state of Texas? long-held official answer. The next day, attorney Gerry Birnberg sent me the link to the transcript of the 1992 oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case Herrera v. Collins. I was appalled by what I read. The State of Texas argued before the nation?s highest court that it was OK to execute an innocent person, as long as he got a fair trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).