SB 3, 77th R.S.
Relating to establishing procedures for the preservation of evidence containing DNA and postconviction DNA testing.
Ex parte Henry Watkins Skinner; Motions for forensic testing, Orders and opinions denying DNA testing (No. 5216, CCA No. 74,400 and AP-75,812). Rethinking death. Defense lawyers worried DNA bill doesn't go far enough. Innocent or guilty...only your DNA knows for sure. Counties required to preserve DNA evidence. Convicts and the code: genetics meets criminal law in confounding new DNA statute. CCA [Court of Criminal Appeals] to decide jurisdiction under new DNA law. Right without a remedy? Post-conviction DNA testings: more questions than answers. The death penalty: always an eye for an eye? Alert! Are you up to snuff on all of these important issues? [indigent defense, DNA preservation, racial profiling, longevity pay, and voir dire] Postconviction DNA testing: a cry for justice from the wrongly convicted. One hundred DNA exonerations: a clarion call for action. Trial judge lacked jurisdiction to order DNA testing: death-row inmate who wanted to pay for test didn't meet law's conditions. The DNA's over there, right next to the jelly: the problems with the preservation of evidence in Texas. |
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