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28 Sep 2010, 1:30 am by johntfloyd
Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions Recommends Expanded Post-Conviction DNA Testing, Habeas Corpus Based on Changing Science By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair U.S. [read post]
31 Mar 2009, 1:43 am
Coming on the heels of news that Governor Rick Perry will meet with the family of Timothy Cole (the falsely convicted inmate who was posthumously exonerated in February in an Austin court), there are a slew of innocence-related bills up today and tomorrow in both the Texas Senate and the House. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 8:34 am
Voter ID was the most important issue in the state, they crowed, though it's notable none of them ever made that statement to anyone from Timothy Cole's family, who were up at the capitol many times throughout session asking the Lege to approve reforms.The Speaker and the Calendars Committee sent the same message when they placed voter ID on the Major State calendar ahead of critical innocence reforms, even though they knew a fight was brewing. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 8:12 am by Steve Hall
We owe Tim that much.Earlier coverage of the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions begins with this post. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 1:15 pm by CJLF Staff
  WLWT News reports that 57-year-old Timothy Sellers was linked to the murder through DNA evidence in 2002, but a series of errors prevented police from launching a full investigation until 2010. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 9:33 am by CJLF Staff
Suspected Cole Bomber to Face Military Tribunal:  Richard A. [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]
26 Oct 2015, 2:06 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
See recommendations drafted by your correspondent on behalf of the IPOT for the Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Panel suggesting issue areas for possible study based on an examination of recent innocence cases. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 5:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits' new contributing writer Jennifer Laurin recently informed readers about "sentinel event" research, which aims to discover the source of system errors, in the context of Texas' Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 7:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas' court of inquiry procedure - creatively used to pursue exoneration (successfully) for Timothy Cole and (unsuccessfully) for Todd Willingham, and an indictment for Williamson County Judge Ken Anderson - is a vestigial holdover from this primitive practice of private prosecutions. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 8:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are links to some excellent resources found in the Texas Indigent Defense Commission winter newsletter that Grits wanted to preserve for my own purposes:See a press release and Texas Judicial Council resolution supporting recommendations from the Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission.See a four-page primer on the Texas Fair Defense Act created for Texas legislators and staff.See the Judicial Council's recommendations regarding legislation governing pretrial… [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 9:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Go here to access interviews with each of them, and here's the feature article accompanying the multimedia project, highlighting the cases of Michael Morton, Tim Cole, Joyce Ann Brown and James Giles. [read post]
30 Aug 2015, 9:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There are a several interesting job openings right now at the Office of Court Administration, including two support staff for the upcoming Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission (see here and here), which must hold its first meeting by October 31st. [read post]
15 Jun 2013, 4:49 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
There's no telling who might replace those three judges or how their replacements might have ruled on these cases.Congrats to Chairmans John Whtimre and Sylvester Turner for getting this done - the 5th of six legislative recommendations authored by the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 2:36 pm
Nearly a decade later, DNA evidence from the crime posthumously exonerated Cole and implicated another man as the perpetrator. [read post]
8 Nov 2012, 9:22 pm by David Smyth
  All of this is according to the SEC, which yesterday sued EGMI’s CEO Cole, its CFO Boyne, and Kevin Donovan, who followed Cole as CEO in 2009. [read post]