Innocence Project leaders and exonerees testify before Texas Senate committee
04.10.07
The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee held a hearing today on three bills to reform the state's justice system. Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck testified, along with four Texas exonerees:
James Giles
,
Brandon Moon
,
Chris Ochoa
and
James Waller
.
The bills discussed today were introduced by Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis (the chairman of the Innocence Project
Board of Directors
) and would create a Texas innocence commission, expand the state's compensation statute and require law enforcement agencies to record custodial interrogations.
Watch video
of today's full press conference, featuring Scheck, Ellis, Giles, Moon, Ochoa and Waller. (Real player required, download it
here
.)
Watch video
of today's Senate Committee on Criminal Justice hearing.
Read background on Senate bill
262
and
263
and
799
.
News coverage of today's hearing and press conference:
Ex-inmates urge reforms to aid wrongly convicted.
(Houston Chronicle, 04/10/07)
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