Previewing innocence legislation in House Criminal Jurisprudence today

Before I head up to the capitol this morning for the House Criminal Jurisprudence hearing on Chairman Pete Gallego's innocence legislation - including bills addressing eyewitness identification, recording interrogations in violent crimes, and allowing habeas relief when improvements in science might prove innocence - I thought I'd link to preview coverage from KXAN-TV in Austin (short ad at the beginning):

Quite a few exonerees and their family members are in town for today's hearing, and there's already some evidence of bipartisan support on the committee. See the Houston Chronicle's earlier preview of the legislation, and Grits'.

Go here to watch a livestream broadcast of the hearing beginning at 10:30 a.m. or upon adjournment of the House.

RELATED:

• Responding to unanswered questions on Rodney Ellis' innocence legislation: "How much of an innocence problem do we really have in this state?"

Eyewitness identification

• First Texas DNA exoneration of 2011: Cornelius Dupree
• Bill requiring eyewitness ID policies a good first step, but remedy still needed for noncompliance
• How much do eyewitnesses really see?
• Eyewitnesses and the 'feeling of knowing'
• Eyewitnesses in staged test only 8% accurate
• More on the fallibility of eyewitness testimony
• Eyewitnesses miss big changes in their environment, like the person in front of them 
• Study: 88% of police and sheriffs have no written policy on eyewitness ID procedures, even fewer follow best practices
• Dallas PD moves to blind, sequential lineups
• CCA Integrity Unit: Eyewitness ID reform should be top innocence priority

Recording interrogations

• Latest exoneration highlights problem of false confessions
• Are false confessions 'coerced' or 'persuaded'?
• CCA orders Yogurt Shop retrial based on possibility of false confessions
• Jurors from false confession case call for recorded interrogations
• Recording interrogations makes loads of sense
• Expert: Yogurt Shop case a prime example of false confessions
• False confessions a "systematic feature of American justice"
• Recording confessions saves much grief for police
• Police interrogation a 'guilt presumptive' process
• Would you confess to a crime you didn't commit to save your life?
• If CIA can record interrogations, so can police
• Abilene PD requires recording interrogations
• El Paso conference brought together top minds to prevent false confessions
• Why record interrogations?
• Juries need more, better information to prevent false convictions

Habeas writs

• The evisceration of habeas corpus in American jurisprudence
• On the usefulness and limits of federal habeas petitions
• Parsing post-conviction writs
• Prosecutors seek to thwart postconviction innocence claims
• Bill would allow habeas appeal based on discredited science