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this week’s edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Seasons greetings, Merry (belated) Christmas & Happy New Year. From this week’s edition. Leading off this week is John Thompson v. Harry F. Connick, et al, a civil case. Prosecutos in Thompson knowingly failed to turn over key exculpatory information. Fast-forward a few years Thompson gets sentenced to death, exhausts his normal rounds of of state and federal “appeals,” and an execution date set.  Defense investigators then discovered the suppressed evidence. The State, in light of the new evidence, agrees to a retrial. At the new trial a jury acquits in 35 minutes. Thompson sues and a jury awards him $14 million.  The Times Picayune notes: In trying to get Thompson’s $14 million reward overturned, lawyers representing the district attorney’s office pointed out that he had never been raped, was fed at all times and given necessary medicine, received visitors, became buddies with other inmates, got to watch television and play chess...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).