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3 Sep 2013, 8:46 am
From the article- "I'm going to predict right now that at least several hundred people over the next few years will come out of prison because of this law," Innocence Project founder Jeff Blackburn said. [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 7:46 am by Robert Guest
From the article- “I’m going to predict right now that at least several hundred people over the next few years will come out of prison because of this law,” Innocence Project founder Jeff Blackburn said. [read post]
22 Aug 2013, 5:53 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Wice said his reticence about the legislative process:changed with a late-spring phone call from Amarillo criminal lawyer Jeff Blackburn, founder and chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 7:18 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But, as the Texas Tribune reported, my boss at the Innocence Project of Texas, Jeff Blackburn told the commission that the most likely reason for handling it that way was "judicial economy." [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 1:36 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
My boss Jeff Blackburn testified about the arson review that the Innocence Project of Texas is performing with the state fire marshal (which is a topic that earned Jeff few new friends when he spoke yesterday at a statewide conference of fire investigators that's currently happening in Austin).The FSC has no shortage of critics. [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 12:35 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But the hearing could have implications far beyond Ed Graf’s case, said Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas.He said the state’s criminal justice system is starting to come to terms with the idea that junk science contributed to a number of wrongful convictions in recent decades. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 3:44 am by SHG
“Once the lawyers do the spadework, a lot of people want to come in,” said Jeff Blackburn, a lawyer who runs the Innocence Project of Texas, “and they don’t understand that we’re limited with the art of the possible here. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 1:55 pm
Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas agrees. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 5:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"That seems patently ridiculous to Jeff Blackburn, an Amarillo criminal defense attorney and chief counsel to the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 9:20 am by Steve Hall
Jeff Blackburn, committee chairman, said Moore used his research talents to expose problems in Texas' criminal defense of low-income people. [read post]
22 May 2012, 11:23 am by Steve Hall
Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas, which works to free wrongfully convicted inmates, said Friday's ruling could open the door for more compensation claims from ex-prisoners. [read post]
22 May 2012, 7:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I've little doubt Jeff Blackburn and Vanita Gupta, the attorneys spearheading that exoneration effort, would readily agree.There's a huge amount of raw luck involved in most exonerations, even in DNA cases: Was the evidence retained? [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 5:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Terry McEachern was disciplined because in that one case lightning struck, national and even international media honed in on the tiny South Plains community, and the activities he'd concealed of his undercover officer, Tom Coleman, were too well documented to ignore (largely thanks to mi amigos Nate Blakeslee and Jeff Blackburn, to give credit where it's due). [read post]
25 Feb 2012, 10:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
My boss Jeff Blackburn has called the death penalty Texas' "state religion," and in many ways I think that captures it: For the public, it's important for the same reasons the Aztecs valued ritual blood sacrifice. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 5:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Lately, attorneys like my boss Jeff Blackburn from the Innocence Project of Texas (Timothy Cole) and Barry Scheck of the national Innocence Project (Todd Willingham) have sought (with 50-50 success) to use the procedure as a truth-seeking vehicle in posthumous innocence cases. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 12:50 pm by Steve Hall
Glasheen collected about $5 million in fees from clients, keeping $3.5 million for his firm and paying the rest to Jeff Blackburn, the chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 9:36 am by Steve Hall
“I think it's all systems go,” said Jeff Blackburn, general counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas, which is spearheading the review. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 7:07 am by Glenn Reynolds
ANOTHER UPDATE: Jeff Mitchell’s comment is on Marsha Blackburn’s facebook page now, along with quite a few other negative responses. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 7:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It could stand to be tweaked but they didn't do a terrible job.However, Smith expresses skepticism about the new law's ultimate impact that I do not share, though I know where it comes from (indeed, it comes in part from my boss at the Innocence Project of Texas, Jeff Blackburn, who's been spreading this meme): I just consider it a result of courtroom lawyers' myopia. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 10:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
”Grits has argued an admittedly counterintuitive position articulated best in the story by my colleague Jeff Blackburn from the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]