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News Coverage of the Skinner Stay

By Steve Hall

There is a good deal of coverage on the Supreme Court's stay in Hank Skinner's case.  I'll break it out into the next several posts.  News coverage, here; blog posts, next; followed by a link to the Larry King Live transcript.Again, the Supreme Court's order is available thanks to SCOTUS Blog in Adobe .pdf format.Lyle Denniston expanded his SCOTUS Blog post, "Execution delayed in DNA case."For ten years, his lawyers have said, he has sought access to DNA evidence that was never tested by prosecutors.   He filed his federal civil rights claim only after those efforts had failed, his counsel has said. Although prosecutors arranged for some DNA tests on some of the evidence, and used the results to  help convict Skinner, his attorneys contend that prosecutors only sought selective testing of crime scene materials...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).