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When Pigs Fly

By Michael Blankenship

The Supreme Court on Monday took the rare step of ordering a federal judge to consider the innocence claims of condemned Georgia prisoner Troy Anthony Davis, who has mounted a global campaign to declare he was wrongfully convicted of murder and barred by federal law from presenting the evidence that would prove it.Read more...A recent story in the NY Times suggested that some federal judges were pushing back against the effects of the 1996 Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. Now this decision - I swear that I saw a pig flying today!Of course Scalia and his 5th appendage Thomas don't see it that way. "This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent," Scalia wrote...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).