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Getting it right vs. finality: Tommy Arthur

By cdw

Tommy Arthur’s claims of innocence will get a hearing this winter in Alabama: A Jefferson County judge will hear claims by death row inmate Tommy Douglas Arthur that a confession by another inmate and crime scene DNA evidence will prove his innocence in a 1982 Colbert County murder case. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Teresa Pulliam has scheduled an initial hearing at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 17, based on a petition by Arthur’s attorney to look at post-conviction issues. The hearing date was confirmed Thursday by a spokeswoman in Pulliam’s office. Arthur’s attorney, Suhana Han, in a legal procedure known as a Rule 32 petition, asked Pulliam to consider a sworn confession by another inmate who says he was guilty in a murder case that Arthur was convicted for three times...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).