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House's Federal Defender Asks Court to Stop Retrial

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Yesterday Paul House's federal public defender, Stephen Kissinger, argued before a three judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that the state of Tennessee has persisted in a pattern on delay in dealing with the Paul House case and should be barred from trying him again for the murder of Carolyn Muncey.Kissinger informed the court that every additional piece of evidence tested for DNA in preparation for this new trial, at the taxpayer's expense, has not matched House and only bolstered his claims of innocence.Judge Gilbert Merritt pushed the state as to whether or not it would ensure that this trial happen in June and could not get a straight answer. The Judge went on to state that there appeared to be "pure stubbornness and vindictiveness on the part of the state" in its unrelenting pursuit of House given that the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).