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Should AG Back Erring Prosecutors?

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That's the title of Rick Casey's latest Houston Chronicle column.  LINK Five years ago I asked readers to feel sorry for Assistant Attorney General Gena Bunn. Now I'm asking you to feel sorry for Assistant Attorney General Catherine Hayes. It was Bunn's job, I wrote, to go "with a straight face" before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of death row inmate Delma Banks "and argue that the state of Texas should be able to suborn perjury and hide evidence with impunity in its quest to get the death penalty." She had to admit that prosecutors had stood silent while two key witnesses lied under oath during Banks' two-day trial in 1980 for the murder of a 16-year-old co-worker. She argued that defense attorneys had waited too long to raise the issue, even though the delay was caused by the prosecutors' cover-up of the evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).