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...Coles. Investigators built a case from the available materials: ambiguous ballistics, jailhouse snitches, witnesses with grudges and the often unreliable observations of the sort of folks who need a burger at 1 a.m. The amalgam was enough to persuade 12 jurors that Davis was guilty, and because the dead man wore a badge, the sentence was death...
...federal courts had no power to hear another word from Davis. But he could make his pitch directly to the Supreme Court. Prisoners have been trying for nearly 50 years without success to get the Justices to employ this "original jurisdiction." Davis succeeded. (Read "Stay of Execution for Georgia Man...
...substantial risk of putting an innocent man to death clearly provides an adequate justification," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, in an opinion joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. "Simply put, the case is sufficiently 'exceptional' to warrant utilization of this Court's" power to intervene from on high. The court ordered a federal district judge in Georgia to examine all the conflicting evidence in the case and determine whether Davis is, in fact, innocent...
...When Evans died, he carried on alone. He was a pioneer in the pundit business, inventing Capital Gang on CNN, which spawned plenty of copycats. He could be a grouch on camera, but in private he was far kinder than his television persona. He was also the hardest-working man in show biz, just in terms of output - columns, newsletters and TV shows. Nearly every day of the past year, as he wrestled with cancer, I have thought of him when analyzing the present state of politics, and often asked myself, "What would Novak think?" (Read TIME TV critic...
...personal testimonies that the propagandists really hit their stride. In the preface of a 220-page paperback titled A Young Man's Memoirs on His Escape from South Korea, the author writes, "I deserted the south, which is regarded as a burial ground for human beings, and went to the blissful land of the north." For good measure, he adds, "South Korea is a living hell unfit for human habitation." (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...