Prosecutors of a Stockton man scheduled to be executed this month alleged for the second time Friday that his lawyers -- one of them Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton -- had submitted forged documents in support of their application for clemency.
Attorneys for Michael Morales offered statements Tuesday from six of the 12 jurors who voted to sentence him to death in 1983, saying they now want Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare his life or that they would not object to clemency. But on Friday, the San Joaquin County district attorney's office submitted statements from five of the jurors saying they had never made any such statements or talked to anyone representing Morales.
Two of the jurors said their names were misspelled on the purported declarations. One said she appeared on a radio program Thursday, opposite one of Morales' lawyers, and reaffirmed her support of the death sentence -- only to learn later that she was one of the jurors identified by the defense as backing clemency.
All five jurors said they still favor executing Morales.
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