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Case of Death Row Inmate Troy Davis Puts New D.A. in Tight Spot

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That's the title of an article in today's Los Angeles Times written by Richard Fausset.  The sub-head is, "Some say Davis, a black man, was wrongly convicted of killing an off-duty white police officer. They are pressing the county's first black D.A. to intervene, a politically dicey prospect."Larry Chisolm, the first black district attorney in Chatham County, Ga., was sitting in his modern, sixth-floor office, tolerating an interview but declining to speak about the problem that he may have to address soon -- the one that could come to define and complicate the rest of his young political career.It is a problem he inherited. The problem of death row inmate Troy Davis.Behind Chisolm, a window framed the western flank of this old Southern city, the county seat, offering a clear view of the bus station parking lot where Davis, a black man, allegedly killed an off-duty white police officer in 1989...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).