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Famed attorney reviews criminal cases in Harris County
11:40 AM CST on Friday, December 7, 2007
The attorney who helped exonerate dozens of convicted drug dealers in Tulia is now getting involved in a review of criminal cases in Harris County.
Jeff Blackburn says he’ll enlist the help of law students to review about 160 convictions.
This all has to do with whether problems in the HPD Crime Lab led to false convictions.
Blackburn has met with some of those men in prison.
“I already met with several of these guys just to get a representative sampling are these good cases are they bad cases can we get anywhere with them or not and you know it’s all over the map,” said Jeff Blackburn with Innocent Project of Texas.
In the next few months, volunteer attorneys will decide which cases are strong enough to take before a judge.
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