Rodney Ellis: Lowering odds that innocents end up in prison (www.dallasnews.com)

Senator Ellis will introduce a package of legislation in 2009 to reduce the chances that another innocent Texan is sent to prison while the true criminal remains at large.

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The Dallas Morning News - "State Needs Innocence Commission" (www.dallasnews.com)

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram - "Exonerated inmates urge criminal justice changes in Texas" (www.star-telegram.com)

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Houston Chronicle - "Public Defender System has its Critics" (www.chron.com)

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