Charles F. Baird
Cochair, National Committee to Prevent Wrongful Executions
Charles F. Baird presided over numerous capital cases in his eight years of elected service on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Judge Baird writes and lectures on criminal justice issues across the Nation and has served as a guest commentator on Court TV. He is currently a visiting justice for the Fourteenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas, an adjunct professor at the South Texas College of Law, and of counsel to the law firm of Cogdell, Durham & Burnett in Houston, Texas. The following is from testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during June 13, 2000,…
