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Clemency Petition Filed for David Lee Powell

By Steve Hall

David Powell's clemency petition, requesting that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison, is available in Adobe .pdf format."District attorney finds fault in Powell defense request," is the title of Tony Plohetski's report in today's Austin American-Statesman.Travis County prosecutors said Wednesday that an effort by attorneys to have the execution orders withdrawn for David Lee Powell, who fatally shot an Austin police officer more than 30 years ago, was based on an inaccurate legal conclusion.Powell's lawyers this week filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus in which they argued that jurors' prediction that Powell posed a future danger was incorrect. Powell shot and killed officer Ralph Ablanedo in 1978...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 10, 2010 (boomark / email).