Texas Law On Junk Science Leads to Exonerations

Four wrongfully convicted women were freed today after being convicted of ritualistic sex abuse, The Huffington Post reports. Mark Godsey, director of the Ohio Innocence Project and writing in the Huffington Post, said the exonerations were possible because of Texas' "new law, known locally as the 'Junk Science Writ,' allows inmates to overturn their convictions and seek new trials when outdated and/or unreliable forensics were used by the prosecution to convict them." Other states should follow Texas' lead, Godsey argued.