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Troy Davis Hearing Tuesday

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"Appeals Court to hear Troy Davis request Tuesday," is reported by Rhonda Cook and Bill Rankin in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Those involved in the case of convicted killer Troy Anthony Davis and those who hold the memory of slain Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail find themselves in a familiar, painful place again: preparing for a court hearing on the 19-year-old murder case. Is Davis innocent? Should recanting or backtracking witnesses be heard?Or has too much time passed? Have there been too many unnecessary legal contortions in a death penalty case that has come close to finality with executions scheduled three times in the past 17 months. On Tuesday the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear Davis? request for a new trial on the basis that he didn?t do it, an appeal called a ?stand-alone innocence? claim...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).