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A Death Sentence Voided

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That's the title of an editorial in today's Los Angeles Times, with the subhead, "The Adam Miranda case shows that the California death penalty costs too much in time, money and justice."If a respected entertainment lawyer had not decided 20 years ago to devote a substantial chunk of his life and work to helping a California death row inmate -- for free -- Adam Miranda would be dead by now. A document that could well have reduced Miranda's sentence had it not purposely or accidentally been kept from defense lawyers never would have come to light. Miranda's most recent petition for habeas corpus likely would have been rejected, just like the ones in 1987, 1989 and 1993. But George R. Hedges stood by Miranda for two decades and happened upon evidence in the file of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office that a different man stabbed a drug dealer to death in 1980...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).