Sandra Bland Act implementation, inadmissible forensics, the case for corroboration, and different tales

A couple of tidbits to clear Grits' browser tabs whereas your correspondent is concentrated elsewhere and your entire state prays for Ho...

A couple of tidbits to clear Grits' browser tabs whereas your correspondent is concentrated elsewhere and your entire state prays for Houston to dry out:

• Listed below are links to all the handouts and biographies of witnesses at a current Texas Home County Affairs Committee listening to on implementation of the Sandra Bland Act.
• A municipal court docket decide from Corsicana highlights some less-discussed bills that take impact in Texas September 1st.
• Grits had famous when the Forensic Science Fee asked the Attorney General in regards to the admissibility of forensics that are neither accredited nor exempt from accreditation. However I by no means seen when the opinion got here out in January. The AG says Texas courts would possible interpret the Code of Prison Process to carry such forensic proof inadmissible.
• Learn a summary of major, recent criminal-justice reforms in Louisiana that is receiving rave opinions.
• A pair of heavy hitters within the corrections subject just lately mentioned why reducing probation populations is key to ending mass incarceration.
• The Vera Institute confronts "The Prison Paradox: More Incarceration Will Not Make Us Safer." 
• The Philadelphia Inquirer makes the case that eyewitness testimony alone should never send anyone to prison. Grits agrees, with the caveat that the limitation want solely apply when the sufferer/witness didn't beforehand know the defendant. In these circumstances, corroboration should be required to convict.
• Marketing campaign Zero has updated its resource page on police accountability points and it is wonderful.