Proposal to Enhance Texas’ Pioneering Junk Science Law Approved by Texas House

Proposal to enhance Texas’ pioneering junk science law approved by Texas House

(TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Over a decade ago, the Texas Legislature passed a groundbreaking law to provide justice when the scientific evidence for a criminal conviction has changed or been discredited. Texas’ junk science law is getting another look over Robert Roberson’s case But in a report examining appeals ruled upon in the decade since, the Texas Defender Service found last year that the so-called junk science law “is not operating as the Tex…

Proposal to enhance state's pioneering junk science law approved by Texas House

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Proposal to enhance Texas’ pioneering junk science law approved by Te…

Last year, lawmakers waded into a dramatic feud over the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, seen as the embodiment of the failures of Texas’ junk science law.