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A subcommittee of the Conviction Review Bureau will assess the office's practices on settlement negotiations case by case, said Danny Kanner, a spokesman for Mr. Schneiderman.
What is more, a commission led by the former F.B.I. director William H. Webster to review bureau security, which also interviewed Mr. Hanssen, agreed with the F.B.I. that it had no reason to believe that Mr. Hanssen was lying.
The Conviction Review Bureau represents the first statewide initiative by a law enforcement agency to address potential wrongful convictions, at a time when many in the state's criminal justice system, including the chief judge, have been calling for changes like the videotaping of police interrogations and the use of new practices for eyewitnesses' identifications.
Notably, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman created a first-of-its-kind Conviction Review Bureau last year, which is built precisely to review cases involving allegations of such misconduct -- cases a DA may well be reluctant to investigate, especially after many years of fighting appeals.
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Judges have authority only to review the bureau's "denial" of an application for relief, Justice Thomas said, explaining that "an actual adverse action on the application by A.T.F. is a prerequisite for judicial review".
The F.B.I. asked the panel last year to review the bureau's scientific work on the case, though not its conclusion on the perpetrator's identity.
Gary Gates, a demographer at the University of California who helped review the bureau's revision, said the new estimates changed the total numbers of couples but not their regional distribution throughout the country.
In addition, Mr. Ashcroft has named a panel of law enforcement officials to review the bureau's performance and hired a management consulting firm to examine its internal controls.
The case jolted the already troubled F.B.I. into tightening its internal security procedures, and prompted Louis J. Freeh, then the F.B.I. director, to name an outside panel to review the bureau's counterintelligence operations.
The former deputy attorney general and federal prosecutor hedged on describing the priorities for his prospective 10-year tenure at the helm of the US's top law enforcement and domestic intelligence arm, contending he wanted to review the bureau internally before committing himself publicly to an agenda.
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