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Texas tackles old convictions with new science

Clip: 4/8/2016 | 9m 29s

Texas tackles old convictions with new science

Texas leads the U.S. in both incarceration rate and number of exonerations of people wrongfully convicted. But it's also the first state to implement a Junk Science Law, which provides defendants whose trials were prosecuted with flawed scientific evidence direct access to a retrial.

04/08/2016 | Rating NR

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