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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]
8 Mar 2011, 3:49 am
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]
16 Apr 2008, 12:59 am
Though DNA exonerations will continue to dominate the news for a while (another innocent man will walk out of a Dallas courtroom this afternoon after 27 years in prison), the number of DNA exonerations will decline in the coming years, predicted Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas, because most counties outside Dallas have not maintained historic DNA evidence, so innocents convicted there won't have the same tool to prove they didn't commit the crimes alleged… [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 9:57 am
Legislators might remember that when the Austin-bashing bills come up: He could come for your guys next.Anyway, Texas' defund-the-task-forces campaign required many years of steady, persistent, opportunistic advocacy work, including years-long litigation that launched careers: The main civil case coming out of Tulia was steered by Innocence-Project-of-Texas founder Jeff Blackburn and Vanita Gupta, who went on to lead the Civil Rights Division in Obama's DOJ and now runs… [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 7:18 am
But, as the Texas Tribune reported, my boss at the Innocence Project of Texas, Jeff Blackburn told the commission that the most likely reason for handling it that way was "judicial economy." [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 5:12 am
This story reminds me of Jeff Blackburn's comments recently in the inaugural Grits for Breakfast podcast, that "criminal defense lawyers who get paid for a living ... understand after awhile that you investigate cases, and a lot of cases go away once you do investigate them. [read post]
8 May 2008, 11:18 am
A number of people are making brief comments now, including Walker County DA David Weeks and Innocence Project of Texas director Jeff Blackburn. (3:35 pm) State Rep. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 11:28 am
"It is time we stop kidding ourselves in believing that what happened in Dallas is somehow unique," said Jeff Blackburn, the founder of the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 9:23 am
But when I was at the Innocence Project of Texas' annual meeting recently, Jeff Blackburn asked the audience - mostly criminal defense lawyers and law students - how many of them read Grits for Breakfast: perhaps a third of the group raised their hands. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 3:02 am
DNA testing in the case was conducted by Orchid-Cellmark.Innocence Project of Texas Executive Director Natalie Roetzel and Senior Counsel Jeff Blackburn will attend Wednesday's hearing, along with several Dallas County men who have been exonerated through DNA testing in recent years. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 5:34 am
Terry McEachern was disciplined because in that one case lightning struck, national and even international media honed in on the tiny South Plains community, and the activities he'd concealed of his undercover officer, Tom Coleman, were too well documented to ignore (largely thanks to mi amigos Nate Blakeslee and Jeff Blackburn, to give credit where it's due). [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 7:54 am
" It's by Jeff Blackburn, Gary Udashen, and Cory Session. [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]
29 Oct 2012, 3:44 am
“Once the lawyers do the spadework, a lot of people want to come in,” said Jeff Blackburn, a lawyer who runs the Innocence Project of Texas, “and they don’t understand that we’re limited with the art of the possible here. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 5:01 am
See related Grits posts: Governor: Graves case shows system works (just not Texas')Flurry of media surrounding Anthony Graves exoneration Legislature should limit immunity for sleazebag prosecutors like Charles SebestaAnthony 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]
14 Nov 2011, 7:51 am
It could stand to be tweaked but they didn't do a terrible job.However, Smith expresses skepticism about the new law's ultimate impact that I do not share, though I know where it comes from (indeed, it comes in part from my boss at the Innocence Project of Texas, Jeff Blackburn, who's been spreading this meme): I just consider it a result of courtroom lawyers' myopia. [read post]
22 May 2012, 7:32 am
I've little doubt Jeff Blackburn and Vanita Gupta, the attorneys spearheading that exoneration effort, would readily agree.There's a huge amount of raw luck involved in most exonerations, even in DNA cases: Was the evidence retained? [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 1:32 pm
(WIMS) Publishers of Michigan Waste Report, REGTrak, WIMS Daily & eNewsUSA Jeff Dauphin, President 767 Kornoelje Dr. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 11:16 pm
(Jeff Blackburn, Chief Counsel at the Innocence Project of Texas, tells me he expects more exonerations to come before the Texas Legislature reconvenes in January 2009.) [read post]
20 Dec 2024, 5:19 am
Piper Hudspeth Blackburn reports for CNN. [read post]
