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An Update on Troy Davis

By Steve Hall

"Death Row Inmate's Team Fights to Save Case," by Alyson Palmer is in today's Fulton County Daily Report, a member of the Law.com family of publications.Lawyers for Troy Davis are fighting to fix the damage caused by their failure to call at a recent hearing the man they say committed the murder for which Davis has been sentenced to die. The problem occurred in June, during an event Davis' supporters had fought for years to achieve: an evidentiary hearing at which Davis could press his claims that he did not kill Savannah, Ga., police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Courtesy of an unusual order from the U.S. Supreme Court, they received that opportunity before U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. But after the hearing got under way, Moore said he had a problem with Davis' case: Where was Sylvester Coles? Going back to Davis' murder trial in 1991, Davis' advocates had pointed the finger at Coles as the real killer of MacPhail...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 09, 2010 (boomark / email).