tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post8085030671401167469..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Paper publishes propitious profile of Texas exonereesGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-78444348737899382622013-02-05T22:57:09.405-06:002013-02-05T22:57:09.405-06:00Yea, police and prosicutors shouldn't frame in...Yea, police and prosicutors shouldn't frame innocent people because they want to move up in the system and they are inherently unbalnced people. Oh well, welcome to judicial corruption in America, you know - the land of the free.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-36545830990355374792013-01-28T12:26:42.584-06:002013-01-28T12:26:42.584-06:00Nice work Grits, as usual!.Nice work Grits, as usual!.Kevin Stouwienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-2803835066382639032013-01-27T12:46:27.906-06:002013-01-27T12:46:27.906-06:00Our judicial system is in sure need of an overhaul...Our judicial system is in sure need of an overhaul and all of these people are just a symptom of how bad our system has become.4.3 million in jail or in prison in america is unacceptable as these exonerees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5250683605689392552013-01-27T11:06:18.517-06:002013-01-27T11:06:18.517-06:00Thanks for sharing my project, I really appreciate...Thanks for sharing my project, I really appreciate <br />it. You can also check out my blog where in the weeks to come I will be giving the story behind each portrait <br /><br />http://blog.chron.com/depthoffield/2013/01/a-human-tragedy/Billy Smith IInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-51226507580036715042013-01-27T07:38:08.539-06:002013-01-27T07:38:08.539-06:00SW/Petra, I'm not sure the exoneration registr...SW/Petra, I'm not sure the exoneration registry can tell us that, at least yet. DNA exonerations are rare - only 10% of violent crimes have biological evidence at all, meaning false convictions in the other 90% typically couldn't be uncovered by that method.<br /><br />Plus, where DNA evidence existed, in older cases it often wasn't saved. For example, the main reason Dallas has more DNA exonerations elsewhere is because their lab saved old evidence to re-test. The fact that San Antonio, Forth Worth, Austin, Houston, etc., didn't doesn't prove there weren't as many false convictions there, it just means they cannot be similarly rectified. And non-DNA exonerations are even rarer and more difficult to achieve under state habeas law.<br /><br />My own sense is that Texas in the past has engaged more aggressively in some of the tactics that cause false convictions, but I don't think that exoneration registry is yet complete or robust enough to make those sort of comparative judgments based solely on that data.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86808564800951278092013-01-27T02:48:20.702-06:002013-01-27T02:48:20.702-06:00The Exoneration Registry can answer those question...The Exoneration Registry can answer those questions. Go to http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspxPetra de Jonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425908569105020011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86918196253577205072013-01-27T01:41:27.265-06:002013-01-27T01:41:27.265-06:00But how does Texas fare against other states? It&#...But how does Texas fare against other states? It's terrible that anyone who is innocent has to languish so long behind bars before thier innocence is accepted by the courts, but I do wonder if it is the same across most American states or whether Texas is particularly bad at sending innocents to prison.sunray's wenchhttp://lookingforthecabinbythelake.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com