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House creates limited new route for defendants who pleaded guilty to seek innocence reviews
Summary
By bipartisan margin, the House approved legislation establishing a pathway for defendants who entered guilty pleas to petition for review on the basis of new non-scientific evidence of innocence when both the prosecutor and defendant join the petition.
The Tennessee House approved House Bill 601 on third and final consideration, establishing a statutory procedure for judges to reopen cases in which a defendant who entered a guilty plea presents new non-scientific evidence of actual innocence.
Representative Freeman, the bill sponsor, said the law was a compromise developed with the…
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