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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]
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]
2 May 2008, 12:43 pm
Sixty Minutes on Sunday will tell the story of James Lee Woodard, who was released from a Texas prison this year after doing 27 years of a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit.Also featured in the piece will be Dallas County DA Craig Watkins and Innocence Project of Texas attorney Jeff Blackburn. [read post]
30 Apr 2008, 11:39 pm
I spent yesterday afternoon with Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas, who was in Austin to visit with legislators and media about James Lee Woodard, an innocent man who spent 27 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 8:03 am
DNA cases 'are the very tiniest tip of a gigantic iceberg of injustice in Texas,' said Jeff Blackburn, an Amarillo civil rights attorney"
Law Prof. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 10:04 am
DNA cases "are the very tiniest tip of a gigantic iceberg of injustice in Texas," said Jeff Blackburn, an Amarillo civil rights attorney who also serves as chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas. [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]
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 Mar 2008, 11:40 am
Congrats, Jeff! [read post]
9 Mar 2008, 3:08 am
See also from Panhandle Truth Squad, a story about Jeff Blackburn demonstrating thta some men are born to greatness, and others have greatness "spilled upon them. [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]
3 Jan 2008, 6:40 pm
Chatman, 47 years old, told the Times he will now work alongside his lawyers at the Innocence Project of Texas — Jeff Blackburn, Natalie Roetzel and Michelle Moore – to help others prove their innocence. [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]
25 Nov 2007, 10:22 pm
Jeff Blackburn, Chief Counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas (IPOT), told me at the end of the evening they'd raised enough to pay for 15 more inmates to get DNA tests to try to prove their innocence.In addition, IPOT has formed an "exoneree council," Blackburn said, that intends to push for innocence reforms at the 2009 Texas Legislature. [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 5:29 am
Consider attending if you're in the Dallas area or donate online as part of their Justice Delayed fundraising campaign.Chief Counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas is a long-time friend of the blog and crackerjack Amarillo-based attorney, Jeff Blackburn, who also was the lead barrister representing the ultimately freed and pardoned clients in the notorious "Tulia" drug stings. [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]
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]
18 Apr 2007, 3:50 am
Checking in with the Innocence Project April 18th, 2007 at 8:11 am The formerly unprecedented review of hundreds of convictions in Dallas County continues "slow but pretty steady," said Jeff Blackburn, director of the Innocence Project of Texas on Tuesday. [read post]
