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Issue spotting the legal questions in the Troy Davis case

By Douglas A. Berman

This new AP article, which is headlined "Troy Davis case full of murky legal questions," provides a basic overview of challenging issues that a high-profile capital case continues to generate. Here is a snippet: Thanks to an order from the U.S. Supreme Court, a Georgia death row inmate was granted a hearing to prove his innocence to a federal judge ? a chance afforded no American facing execution in nearly half a century. Now that the court hearing is over, what happens next isn't so clear. The case of condemned inmate Troy Anthony Davis is so unusual, legal experts can't even agree on what the judge can do. Davis' fate rests with a U.S. District Court judge who heard testimony in June from witnesses who say they lied at Davis' trial. Others say they heard another man confess to the 1989 slaying of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).