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18 Sep 2009, 9:23 am
According to IPOT Chief Counsel Jeff Blackburn, "Deputy Pikett's dog scent lineups are perfect examples of the types of junk science that should be kept out of the Texas criminal justice system. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 10:35 am
Scheck was also one of the attorneys on the Timothy Cole case, along with Innocence Project of Texas legal director Jeff Blackburn. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 3:00 am
Senate against Congresswoman Marcia Blackburn, who has supported soring—the cruel use of caustic chemicals and other painful substances to injure the hooves and legs of show horses. [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 7:46 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]
9 May 2011, 9:31 am
” The disputes have bitterly divided the community of lawyers and activists who struggle to help the falsely accused, and they have brought an uncomfortable spotlight on the practices of some within the Innocence Project of Texas, whose co-founder and chief counsel, Jeff Blackburn, is in line to collect $413,000 of the Glasheen fee for referring the Phillips civil case to him. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 1:39 am
The brief report, written by IPOT legal director Jeff Blackburn, is well worth a full read but I thought I'd point out a few highlights.One new fact-bite in the report concerns the use of scent lineups in communist Cuba, where "secret police have amassed thousands of bottles of scents taken from anti-Castro slogans painted on walls and other such 'crime scenes' and are using them as 'proof' against dissidents. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 5:30 am
Jeff Kelly, chair, Future of Law Committee, North Carolina Bar Association. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 12:59 am
Though DNA exonerations will continue to dominate the news for a while (another innocent man will walk out of a Dallas courtroom this afternoon after 27 years in prison), the number of DNA exonerations will decline in the coming years, predicted Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas, because most counties outside Dallas have not maintained historic DNA evidence, so innocents convicted there won't have the same tool to prove they didn't commit the crimes alleged… [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 3:49 am
Charles SebestaLegislature should limit immunity for sleazebag prosecutors like Charles Sebesta The Anatomy of a Frame-Up: More on Anthony Graves Governor: Graves case shows system works (just not Texas')Flurry of media surrounding Anthony Graves exonerationAnthony 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 Dec 2020, 9:57 am
Legislators might remember that when the Austin-bashing bills come up: He could come for your guys next.Anyway, Texas' defund-the-task-forces campaign required many years of steady, persistent, opportunistic advocacy work, including years-long litigation that launched careers: The main civil case coming out of Tulia was steered by Innocence-Project-of-Texas founder Jeff Blackburn and Vanita Gupta, who went on to lead the Civil Rights Division in Obama's DOJ and now runs… [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 7:18 am
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]
24 Feb 2016, 9:13 am
Thanks again to the amici, Floyd Abrams, Michael Barone, Ashutosh Bhagwat, Jeff Blackburn, Paul Coggins, Alan Dershowitz, Raul Gonzalez, Stephen Griffin, Dan Lowenstein, Michael McConnell, John Montford, Michael Mukasey, Ted Olson, Harriet O’Neill, Nate Persily, Ken Starr and Johnny Sutton for signing on to the brief (together with Jim Ho and me, who were signatories as well as co-counsel). [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 5:30 am
Thelton Henderson, Inactive Senior United States District Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California Shon Hopwood, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Vasu Kappettu, COO and CTO, Justia Liz Keith, Program Director, Pro Bono Net Jeff Kelly, Chair, Future of Law Committee, North Carolina Bar Association Diana Koppang, Director of Research & Competitive Intelligence, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP Steven Lofchie, Partner,… [read post]
22 May 2012, 7:32 am
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]
29 Oct 2012, 3:44 am
“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]
14 Nov 2011, 7:51 am
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]
16 Mar 2011, 5:12 am
This story reminds me of Jeff Blackburn's comments recently in the inaugural Grits for Breakfast podcast, that "criminal defense lawyers who get paid for a living ... understand after awhile that you investigate cases, and a lot of cases go away once you do investigate them. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 1:32 pm
(WIMS) Publishers of Michigan Waste Report, REGTrak, WIMS Daily & eNewsUSA Jeff Dauphin, President 767 Kornoelje Dr. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 7:54 am
" It's by Jeff Blackburn, Gary Udashen, and Cory Session. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 3:02 am
DNA testing in the case was conducted by Orchid-Cellmark.Innocence Project of Texas Executive Director Natalie Roetzel and Senior Counsel Jeff Blackburn will attend Wednesday's hearing, along with several Dallas County men who have been exonerated through DNA testing in recent years. [read post]
