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Editorial Calls for More Action from Connecticut Innocence Panel

Posted: October 5, 2009 5:42 pm

An editorial in today’s Connecticut Law Tribune calls on the Connecticut Advisory Commission on Wrongful Convictions to end a lull in activity and make recommendations to the state legislature on reforms that can prevent wrongful convictions.  The panel is one of eight such commissions around the country, but the Connecticut group — expected to meet quarterly — has met only once since November 2006.  

Three men have been cleared through DNA testing in Connecticut since 2006: Miguel Roman, James Tillman and Kenneth Ireland. From today’s editorial:

To date, the Advisory Commission on Wrongful Convictions has yet to conduct an in-depth review of any of these cases. Nor has it examined any of the major causes of wrongful conviction or made any recommendations for the reform of practices and procedures necessary to insure that similar miscarriages of justice do not occur. In fact, since its inception in 2003, the commission has not issued a single report.

Read the full editorial here. (Connecticut Law Tribune, 10/05/09)