Panel Urges Evidence Reform in California
Rebuffed last year by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a panel of justice experts is pressing the state to adopt safeguards it believes will curb wrongful criminal convictions.
The commission is proposing bills to help prevent false eyewitness identifications and forced confessions, and to make it harder for prosecutors to rely on jailhouse informants in building criminal cases. MIKE ZAPLER in the Mercury News.