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The Latest on the Troy Davis Case

By Steve Hall

"Troy Davis case raising novel legal issues," is the title of Bill Rankin's Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. Condemned inmate Troy Anthony Davis filed the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary when he petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a hearing on his innocence claims. But in August, for the first time in nearly half a century, the nation?s highest court took a case filed directly to its docket that had not come up from a lower court on appeal. Once again, Davis, who sits on death row for killing an off-duty Savannah police officer in 1989, was spared execution. And since the reprieve, Davis? lawyers say a new witness has come forward on his behalf. ?It was just stunning,? said U.S. Supreme Court historian Lucas A. ?Scot? Powe, a professor of law and government at the University of Texas at Austin...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).