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Caught in Albany’s chaos

June
17

Before taking last week off, I wrote about reforms that the Innocence Project was hoping to get this session from Albany.

The column appeared Monday morning, by the afternoon all chaos had broken out. What timing!

And the changes sought by the Innocence Project—meant to lessen the chance of wrongful convictions—are so far lost in the coup.

“We continue working with leaders in the Senate, the Assembly and the Governor’s Office,” said Eric Ferrero, the group’s director of communications. “We think that this is some of the important business that people are eager for the legislature to get to.”

Unfortunately, the Senate is not doing much at all.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 2:22 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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Noreen O'DonnellNoreen O'Donnell For the last 20 years, Noreen O'Donnell has written about Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate, rebuilding Ground Zero, the Korean immigrants who travel north each day from Queens to work in nail salons, deadly runaway fire trucks and other stories in Westchester and Putnam counties. Now she's a columnist.



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