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Supreme Court Grants 3rd Hearing to TN Death Row Inmate: According to Adam Liptak's article in the New York Times, the US Supreme Court has granted a third hearing to Gary B. Cone, who was sentenced to death for double murder, to determine if he still has an opportunity to argue that prosecutors did not fully disclose evidence that might have helped his defense. Prosecutors are accused of having withheld evidence of drug use, the precise explanation Cone used to excuse his behavior. Can Court Rule Inmate Too Dangerous for Psychiatric Facility? Ruben Casteneda reports for the Washington Post that a Circuit Court judge has ruled that an inmate is too dangerous to both himself and to others to be allowed outside of Baltimore's Supermax despite his ruling that the inmate was not criminally responsible for his crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).