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2 Sep 2010, 1:36 pm
In the book, McKinley, a retired criminal investigator with the Attorney General's office in Louisiana, details how the young Army veteran was wrongfully convicted based on eyewitness misidentification from the victim and unvalidated forensic science from the Texas Department of Public Safety.It also reveals the long and difficult road of post-conviction appeals up to Cole's exoneration and eventual pardon 25 years later.The foreword is written by Jeff Blackburn, chief… [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 1:02 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The missus and I are headed on a European junket - to London, Berlin, and Barcelona - and also visiting my wife's best friend from college, who married a German forest ranger and lives in a national park outside of Hamburg.I've invited Ana Yañez Correa, Jeff Blackburn, and a couple of other folks who haven't confirmed yet to guest blog in my absence. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 6:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Three notable innocence-related stories today from the Houston Chronicle:Odds still against clearing inmatesProtocol for the wrongly convictedWaking up after a 27-year nightmareIn the first story, Jeff Blackburn from the Innocence Project of Texas says he thinks there are "thousands" of innocent people incarcerated in Texas prisons. [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]
18 Jan 2010, 8:25 am by Walter Reaves
My friend - and head of the Innocence Project of Texas - Jeff Blackburn suggested that we reject the test adopted for "soft sciences" - which has been labeled the Nenno test. [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]
13 Dec 2009, 8:58 pm by smtaber
December 14, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. [read post]
11 Dec 2009, 2:47 am
This spring I worked worked for/with both lawyers being sued - Kevin Glasheen and Jeff Blackburn - and my history with Blackburn goes back to working with him on the Tulia cases around the turn of the century. [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]
8 Dec 2009, 1:43 pm by WIMS
Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee that would pre-empt the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. [read post]
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]
11 Nov 2009, 4:21 am
Several times Bradley spoke of the Innocence Project with a disdainful sneer as a "New York nonprofit," as though Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas weren't sitting just six feet behind him in the audience. [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]
13 Oct 2009, 8:51 am
Bethke's boss, Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Court of Criminal Appeals, was also there, seated next to Innocence Project of Texas chief Jeff Blackburn, oddly enough. [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]
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]
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]