How many texans got unfair trails?How many innocent put to death?

[rhino47]

This is really upsetting to me.Stacking the appeals courts with
prosecutors.Seven of nine are former prosecutors.They are increasingly hostile to the inmates and their lawyers.
Its pretty sad when they plagiarize clarence thomas.

Anyone know how many * appointed?


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/national/05texas.html?oref=login&th
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Death Sentences in Texas Cases Try Supreme Court's Patience
By ADAM LIPTAK and RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Published: December 5, 2004
n the past year, the Supreme Court has heard three appeals from inmates on death row in Texas, and in each case the prosecutors and the lower courts suffered stinging reversals.

In a case to be argued on Monday, the court appears poised to deliver another rebuke.

Perhaps as telling is the exasperated language in decisions this year from a Supreme Court that includes no categorical opponent of the death penalty. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in June that the Fifth Circuit was "paying lip service to principles" of appellate law in issuing death penalty rulings with "no foundation in the decisions of this court."

In an unsigned decision in another case last month, the Supreme Court said the Court of Criminal Appeals "relied on a test we never countenanced and now have unequivocally rejected." The decision was made without hearing argument, a move that ordinarily signals that the error in the decision under review was glaring.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. It has long been my belief...

That Texas is a state that officially Out of Control. They slipped the surly bonds of civilization long ago, at an official level, and are now run by criminals, misfits, cretins, thugs, village idiots and used car salesmen.

[rhino47]

2. I agree with you there

but i think its like a cancer thats spreading.

[Dez]

3. I agree..

I think it's getting that bad in Arizona. I just saw a story on the news about an 'open house' at Joe Arpaio's new jail. There was a little girl who had been brought in.. didn't hear what she said though.. America seems so proud of their incarcertaion rate, it's shamefu... Lock up all those horrible pot smokers, strip them of their civil rights to vote.. it's just diesgusting. I read somewhere that other countries don't strip away a person's right to vote if they are convicted of a crime..

[charlie]

4. Yep. And we're all becoming Texans now

The days that we enjoy protection from the Supreme Court may be drawing to a close. Note that the appeals court used Thomas' dissenting opinion almost verbatim to deny appeal on the second go-round.

Read this line from another dissent, authored by Scalia with Thomas' concurrence and see if it doesn't knock the wind out of you:

"There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction."

http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/cp-herrera/