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Supreme Court Orders News Hearing for Troy Davis

By Steve Hall

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"Supreme Court says Georgia man should get hearing," is Jesse Halland's AP report via Google News.The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose supporters say is innocent and should be spared from execution for killing a police officer 20 years ago.Davis has spent 18 years on death row for the 1989 slaying of Savannah, Ga., police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis' attorneys insist that he is innocent and deserves a new trial because several witnesses at his trial have recanted their testimony.The high court ordered a federal judge in Georgia to determine whether there is evidence "that could not have been obtained at the time of trial (that) clearly establishes petitioner's innocence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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