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ACLU Asks Supreme Court To Review Case Of Innocent Man On Texas' Death Row

By "Persian Cowboy"

ACLU Asks Supreme Court To Review Case Of Innocent Man On Texas' Death RowMax Soffar Never Given Opportunity To Present Evidence Pointing To His InnocenceNEW YORK - March 30 - The American Civil Liberties Union and the Texas Innocence Network (TIN) today petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the wrongful conviction of an innocent man who has sat on Texas' death row for nearly three decades.In their petition, the ACLU and TIN argue that Max Soffar, whose conviction and death sentence in the killing of three people during an armed robbery at a Houston bowling alley in 1980 were based on a false confession, has never been given an opportunity to present evidence that points strongly to his innocence."The death penalty system in our country is impossible to trust when innocent people sit for decades on death row without ever being afforded a fair trial or the opportunity to present all existing evidence," said Brian Stull, staff attorney with the ACLU Capital Punishment Project...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 31, 2010 (boomark / email).