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2 Dec 2009, 9:04 am
" Meanwhile, at Texas Tech a scholarship has been established in Timothy Cole's name by two former employers who I respect a lot: Jeff Blackburn, a director of the Innocence Project of Texas, and Kevin Glasheen, who has represented about a dozen wrongly convicted Texans, will donate $100,000 to create an endowment named for Timothy Brian Cole. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 8:09 am by Steve Hall
"I think Rick Perry is really getting a bum rap if and when he's being portrayed as some sort of bloodthirsty tyrant that just likes to kill people," says Jeff Blackburn, chief legal counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas, which works to overturn wrongful convictions. [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]
27 Nov 2008, 6:31 am
"In the last decade, more than 30 prisoners in Texas and 200 nationally have been exonerated, most of them by using DNA testing to establish their innocence, said Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas, which has collaborated with the UT-Arlington project.Kudos to the Hogg Foundation and Jaimie Page at UTA for being pro-active to address a problem that didn't really exist on the scale it does now before the rise of DNA testing.Speaking of which,… [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 11:33 pm
I haven't spoken to Jeff about this in a while, but one hopes these three men make it onto the short list if the cases against them are as weak as they appear from Dave's reporting. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 12:48 pm by Steve Hall
Defense attorney Jeff Blackburn, founder and general counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas, believes the measure (Texas House Bill 215) "standing alone, will accomplish approximately nothing. [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]
17 Feb 2011, 5:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“(Attorney) Jeff (Bates) called me this morning and said ‘you won, Tony. [read post]
16 Nov 2013, 9:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 "This is an historic case", said Jeff Blackburn, Chief Counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 4:40 am by SHG
That was the problem Jeff Blackburn had when he quit the Texas Innocence Project that he helped found, after the main Innocence Project threw a gala to honor that champion of the poor and downtrodden, Goldman Sachs. [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]
17 Jan 2010, 7:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Jeff Blackburn from the Innocence Project of Texas added an excellent point that IMO should receive just as much attention as Wellborn's idea of reenacting Frye. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:23 am by Hilde
Jeff Blackburn, the chief counsel for the group, said Deputy Pickett merely gave the police the match they had hoped for. [read post]
22 May 2012, 11:23 am by Steve Hall
Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas, which works to free wrongfully convicted inmates, said Friday's ruling could open the door for more compensation claims from ex-prisoners. [read post]
18 Sep 2014, 8:51 pm by Jeff Gamso
 So did Jeff Blackburn who founded the Texas Innocence Project.Of course, they were both lying. [read post]
8 May 2008, 2:36 am
., double-blind procedures, showing photos sequentially instead of as a group, and requiring the neutral lineup administrator to advise witnesses that the perpetrator may not be in the photo array.RELATED: Craig Watkins, Mike Ware, Innocence Project of Texas Jeff Blackburn, numerous recent exonerees, and others involved with this issue will participate in an "innocence summit" this afternoon from 1-4 p.m. in the Texas Senate chambers. [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]
4 Nov 2009, 7:09 am
” Jeff Blackburn, the chief counsel for the group, said Deputy Pickett merely gave the police the match they had hoped for. [read post]