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Harassment Charge in Pondexter Clemency Effort

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"Harvard Law Interns Aiding Death-Row Inmate Detained by Sheriff, Suit Says," is Debra Cassens Weiss' report at ABA Journal, this morning.Two Harvard law students working as legal interns on behalf of a Texas death-row inmate were stopped by sheriff?s deputies and ticketed for criminal trespassing after they tried to interview a corrections officer at home, a lawsuit alleges. The students, who were interning with the Texas Defender Service during their winter break, were trying to gather evidence supporting a claim by inmate Willie Pondexter that he deserved clemency because he has been a model inmate, the Associated Press reports. The civil rights suit (PDF) claims the sheriff and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice harassed Pondexter and tried to interfere with clemency efforts, the AP story says...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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