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Mental Retardation Issue at Supreme Court - Bobby v. Bies

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"High court to hear death case," is Malia Rulon's report in today's Cincinnati Enquirer.A case that began with a child's brutal murder in the basement of an abandoned Price Hill building goes to the U.S. Supreme Court today.The court's decision, not expected for months, could mean life or death for the killers convicted in the 1992 case - even though they may be retarded.Ten-year-old Aaron Raines was kidnapped May 12, 1992, from a park in Lower Price Hill. Police found his body later that night in the basement of an abandoned building in Cincinnati. The Oyler Elementary School fourth grader had been kicked, beaten with a piece of concrete and a metal pipe and strangled with a piece of twine, court documents said.Fingerprints led investigators to Darryl Gumm and Michael Bies of Hazard, Ky...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).