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An Update on the Troy Davis Case

By Steve Hall

Bill Rankin reports, "New Troy Davis hearing this week in cop's death," in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr., who will hear the case, is not expected to make an immediate ruling. He has instructed parties that he wants them to file legal briefs after the hearing is over. He also told the lawyers that because he has already read the trial record and the legal pleadings in the case, he expects them to come to his courtroom and "immediately" enter into the presentation of evidence. "Certainly, Mr. Davis and his attorneys have a very difficult burden ahead of them," said Howard Bashman, a Philadelphia attorney who operates a Web site devoted entirely to appellate litigation...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).