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Tennessee's Knoxville News-Sentinel has the editorial, "Tennessee case good one for high court."A Tennessee criminal case will provide the U.S. Supreme Court with an opportunity to determine if indigent death-row inmates seeking clemency have a right to lawyers paid for by taxpayers. It could prove to be a significant case for future rights - and filings - of inmates. Justices are expected to hear oral arguments near the end of the year in the case of Edward Jerome Harbison, convicted in the 1983 beating death of a 63-year-old woman in Chattanooga during a robbery of her home. U.S. appellate courts have taken differing positions on this issue, and the Bush administration said Harbison's case would be a good one for the court to decide...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).