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19 Jan 2011, 8:48 am by Steve Hall
He kept $3.5 million for his firm and paid the rest to Jeff Blackburn, the chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 5:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See related Grits posts: Governor: Graves case shows system works (just not Texas')Flurry of media surrounding Anthony Graves exoneration Legislature should limit immunity for sleazebag prosecutors like Charles SebestaAnthony Graves: Innocent and free 16 years after unfounded death sentenceProgress and its Discontents - or, What I learned from an article in Texas Monthly (guest post by Jeff Blackburn) [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 7:49 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
For more background on the case, check out Jeff Blackburn's guest post on Grits published while I was on vacation and an excellent Texas Monthly feature by Pam Colloff.See prior, related Grits posts:Progress and its Discontents, or what I learned from an article in Texas Monthly'Scent lineup' evidence may be used in Anthony Graves capital murder caseTales from death row: Passion and intrigue marked two capital murder trialsBlog: Four of 10 worst US prosecutors in… [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 9:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But when I was at the Innocence Project of Texas' annual meeting recently, Jeff Blackburn asked the audience - mostly criminal defense lawyers and law students - how many of them read Grits for Breakfast: perhaps a third of the group raised their hands. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 8:26 am by Steve Hall
But equally important is the issue of junk science, which is endemic in Texas courts, according to Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel to the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 5:54 am by Mary A. Fischer
” Nearly ever week at the courthouse in Pampa, defense lawyer Jeff Blackburn has some legal matter that involves Lynn Switzer. [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 9:02 am by Mary A. Fischer
  In 1998, with Jeff Blackburn as his attorney, he successfully sued officials for opening his attorney-client mail. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 10:40 am
"If the city of Lubbock really wanted to do the right thing, they would agree with us to have an open and public hearing in which all of the facts of the Cole hearing were examined and all of its implications understood," chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas Jeff Blackburn said.... [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 1:00 pm by Mary A. Fischer
  “You’ve got to know Texas to understand this case,” Jeff Blackburn, founder of the Texas Innocence Project told me. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 7:54 am by Steve Hall
"  It's by Jeff Blackburn, Gary Udashen, and Cory Session. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 4:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Kicking off Flawed Forensic Science Week, here's a notable excerpt from an op ed in the Houston Chronicle ("It's time to ban junk science from Texas courtrooms," Oct. 2) from Jeff Blackburn, Gary Udashen and Cory Session (Timothy Cole's half brother) from the Innocence Project of Texas on the need to ferret junk science out of Texas courtrooms and redress wrongful convictions from the past:There are few things more convincing to a jury than scientific… [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 7:59 am by Steve Hall
And: Attorneys Jeff Blackburn and Gary Udashen, who are Innocence Project of Texas board members, said filing the complaint with the forensic science commission is the first step toward clearing Cacy's name. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 7:25 am by Steve Hall
“We’re starting on a serious long-term campaign to end the use of junk science in Texas courtrooms,” says Jeff Blackburn, the organization's chief counsel. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 10:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Scheck was also one of the attorneys on the Timothy Cole case, along with Innocence Project of Texas legal director Jeff Blackburn. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 7:29 am by Steve Hall
It was a unique strategy in 2009, when Jeff Blackburn and the Innocence Project of Texas used it to formally clear Cole using the results of DNA testing performed by Lubbock County clearing the former Tech student of a 1984 rape. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 2:53 pm
Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas, hailed the ruling as a big step toward eliminating dog scent evidence from courtrooms, even if the court did not go that far. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 10:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Michael Landauer at the Dallas News wrote a telling post reacting to Jeff Blackburn's lament on Grits while I was gone about why eyewitness ID reforms, which seem obvious to anyone paying attention, can't seem to gain traction. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 4:16 pm by Bruce Korol
  Here's Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas on the story: Ms. [read post]