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The Latest on the Skinner Case

By Steve Hall

Allan Turner writes, "Lawyers make last bid for man convicted in Panhandle slayings," in today's Houston Chronicle.With their client's execution for a triple homicide set for next week, Henry Skinner's lawyers are making a last bid to have so-far unexamined evidence ? bloody knives, a rape kit, fingernail scrapings ? subjected to DNA testing.But attorneys for the prosecutor filed paperwork Monday asking U.S. Supreme Court justices not to review the case, arguing that such testing could not prove innocence. And: Skinner's lead attorney, Rob Owen of the University of Texas Capital Punishment Center, asked the high court to review lower court decisions that prohibited him from seeking additional DNA testing as a civil rights claim...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 16, 2010 (boomark / email).