There is an article that I stumbled upon in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that describes the predicament of Dallas county and its 14 DNA exonerations. It talks about Texas Sen. Rodney Ellis's bill that pushes for the creation of an Innocence Council to open cases to review DNA evidence. Which seems like a good idea on paper but, of course you have your trigger-happy Republicans ready to shoot it down. State Rep. Kim Brimer declared it to be "just another level of bureaucracy". I guess everything is "bureaucracy" for subscribers of the less is more theory. I say lets get to exoneraterating, the prisons are already overcrowed as it is. Why keep innocent people incarerated? There shouldn't even be a debate, this is good for Texas. There's only six other states who have innocence councils therefore this would be really progressive and might even help to weaken the perception that all Texans are SUV driving, fencebuilding redneck bigots.
here's the link:
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/252116.html
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