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17 Aug 2007, 8:06 am
"We need to find out why these cases turned like they did," said Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas, which works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted. [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]
2 Feb 2009, 11:38 pm
" It would be the first posthumous DNA exoneration in Texas, according to attorney Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas, paving the way for a pardon by the governor and, eventually, expunging Cole's record. [read post]
10 May 2011, 4:35 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
What most folks wanted to talk about though was my opinion of a dramatically spun New York Times article about a fee dispute between two exonerees and attorneys who represented them in civil litigation, most prominently West Texas trial lawyer Kevin Glasheen and  Jeff Blackburn at the Innocence Project of Texas, a group for whom I'm lobbying this session. [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]
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]
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]
19 May 2010, 7:41 am by Steve Hall
“We are facing a real crossroads in indigent defense because of money,” Jeff Blackburn, general counsel for the Texas Innocence Project told members of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 11:52 am by Steve Hall
"Harris County was the standard bearer of everything bad in criminal justice for a long time," says Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 8:14 am by Steve Hall
Jeff Blackburn, the Innocence Project of Texas' chief attorney, said priority will be given to Texas death row inmates. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 8:45 am by Steve Hall
The law had been championed by Glasheen and Blackburn. [read post]
4 Feb 2009, 8:09 am
"There are others out there, and we'll get them," Jeff Blackburn, Cole's attorney and chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas, says of the potential for more cases such as Cole's. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 5:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
9 Jul 2009, 9:37 am by Robert Bennett
    Jeff Blackburn, a criminal defense attorney in Amarillo, Texas, says Freddie Brookins Jr. never had a fighting chance. [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]
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]
31 Aug 2007, 12:01 pm
"Perhaps the reality that people aren't so hip on the death penalty anymore is finally getting across, even to Rick Perry," Jeff Blackburn, the founder and chief counsel of the Texas Innocence Project, told me. [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]