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TexasTowelie

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Thu May 28, 2015, 02:11 AM May 2015

Texas Innocence Project Founder Quits, Accuses Colleagues Of Selling Out

He's not about the bling.

But as he sees it, that's all his colleagues have become about.

So he's vowing to continue fighting the good fight ... on his own.

Texas defense lawyer Jeff Blackburn has parted ways with the high-profile organization he founded a decade ago, dedicated to seeking the exoneration of people believed to be wrongly sent to death row.

But Blackburn isn't stepping away from the Innocence Project of Texas because he's changing his mission. Actually, he blasted his colleagues currently leading the group of not having enough backbone to stand up to interests corrupting that mission.

Read more: http://www.sacurrent.com/Blogs/archives/2015/05/27/texas-innocence-project-founder-quits-accuses-colleagues-of-selling-out

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Texas Innocence Project Founder Quits, Accuses Colleagues Of Selling Out (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2015 OP
Freeing innocent people from prison costs a lot of money bluestateguy May 2015 #1

bluestateguy

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1. Freeing innocent people from prison costs a lot of money
Thu May 28, 2015, 03:39 AM
May 2015

It's not like DA's, police, courts and prisons are going to just let somebody go because a little grass rootsy group sent them a polite letter asking them to do so. Or few hundred people held a rally in the Texas capital.

No, it takes money and lots of it to fight the entrenched prison industrial complex.

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