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Another Setback for Kevin Cooper

By "Persian Cowboy"

From the Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise] Condemned prisoner Kevin Cooper was denied a rehearing Monday by a federal appellate panel in a 114-page order that bristled with dissents, one of them claiming that "the state of California may be about to execute an innocent man." [Full text at http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/05/11/05-99004o.pdf] Another judge defended the decision, saying evidence and post-conviction forensic tests only point to Cooper, now 51, as the 1983 knife-and-hatchet slayer of three family members and a houseguest in a Chino Hills home. With the denial of an "en banc" rehearing before an 11-judge judicial panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Cooper has 90 days to ask the United States Supreme Court to review his case, the first step toward getting an appeal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).