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News Coverage of the Troy Davis Hearing - Day 1

By Steve Hall

Today's New York Times carries a brief item, "Georgia: Witnesses in Murder Case Recant," by Shaila Dewan.In an unusual hearing ordered by the Supreme Court that began in Savannah on Wednesday, several witnesses said they had concocted testimony that Troy Anthony Davis killed a police officer, Mark MacPhail, in 1989. Last August, the Supreme Court ordered a federal district court to determine if new evidence ?clearly establishes? Mr. Davis?s innocence, its first order in an ?actual innocence? petition from a state prisoner in nearly 50 years, according to Justice Antonin Scalia, who dissented. The latest AP filing is, "Ga. death row inmate in rare innocence hearing," by Russ Bynum.In U.S. District Court on Wednesday, Davis' lawyers rested their case after calling nine witnesses to support that claim...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).