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16 May 2011, 7:44 am by Steve Hall
And: A pair of similar bills in the Texas Legislature - SB 1835 by Rodney Ellis, D-Houston; and HB 115 by Ruth McClendon, D-San Antonio - would change that. [read post]
11 May 2011, 9:08 am by Steve Hall
 Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, in urging House lawmakers to act quickly to pass bills that could help put an end to wrongful convictions. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 1:54 pm
Rodney Ellis requires post-conviction testing if biological evidence was never tested or if new techniques would give more accurate results. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 7:56 am by Steve Hall
Senate Bill122 is one of the recommendations of the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 4:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rodney Ellis' eyewitness ID legislation passed the Texas Senate yesterday unanimously, with Ellis moving to pass the bill in the memory of Timothy Cole. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 6:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rodney Ellis is carrying the first two on the senate side, while Senate Criminal Justice Chairman John Whitmire has filed a companion bill to HB 220. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 10:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rodney Ellis' "Innocence Protection Package": "Ellis' bills include many of the [Timothy Cole Advisory] panel's suggestions, including uniform procedures for eyewitness identification, requiring investigators to record interrogations in serious felonies, streamlining defendants' appeals for DNA testing, and reorganizing Texas' indigent defense task force. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 9:35 am by Steve Hall
The Cole Panel Report and a volume of Research Details are available in Adobe .pdf format. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 1:06 pm by Steve Hall
Patrick O’Burke; crime victims including Michele Mallin, who mistakenly identified Timothy Cole, who was posthumously pardoned this year by Governor Rick Perry; legislators, including Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis; and death row exonerees including Anthony Graves, who was freed from Texas’ death row in October after new evidence proved his innocence. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 8:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Wendy Davis, Royce West and Rodney Ellis and Reps. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 3:27 pm
Ellis is the Innocence Project's Board of Directors Chairman, and Session is the brother of Tim Cole, a Texas man who was posthumously pardoned a decade after he died in prison when DNA evidence proved his innocence.While the work of the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel represents a significant step forward for criminal justice reform in Texas, Ellis and Session write that reforms are still needed, including improving eyewitness identification procedures, mandatory electronic … [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 8:12 am by Steve Hall
  It's written by State Senator Rodney Ellis and Cory Session, brother of the late Tim Cole. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 7:44 am by Steve Hall
  State Senator Rodney Ellis turned the idea into legislation first introduced in 2003. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 7:35 am by Steve Hall
Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, who sponsored the Timothy Cole Act, said the students’ work was vital to the successful exoneration. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 11:44 pm by Tung Yin
  Meanwhile, the starting pitcher that I benched (Max Scherzer) had a decent night, but the one I started (Cole Hamels) got shelled. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 7:47 am by Steve Hall
Rodney Ellis, Barry Scheck of the Innocence PRoject and Tim Cole's brother shared their best arguments on Skinner's behalf with our readers: Science proved Timothy Cole's innocence 10 years too late. [read post]