IN THE NEWS The Troy Anthony Davis CaseTroy Anthony Davis: An Innocent Man Facing Execution in Georgia Seven of the nine witnesses who initially testified that Davis was the killer have recanted. There was no physical evidence presented at his trial, and no weapon was found. But Davis' petitions for a new trial have been denied.
High Court Won't Hear Death Row Appeal By William Braniginn and Jerry Markon WashingtoWednesday, October 15, 2008 Post Staff Writers In refusing to hear a full appeal, the court maintained the high bar it has set for assertions of innocence after convictions in capital cases. Georgia now can set a new date for Davis's execution, because the court's stay expired with yesterday's order
Kim Soo-im "The Korean Seductres Who betrayed America" Back in the days of "Commies" and "pinkos," of Red scares, black lists, suspicion and smear, Kim Soo-im stood out as a one-woman axis of evil, a villainess without peer
Constitutional Issues A DNA Project Many decisions reversed because of DNA evidence Accused of rape and murder. One sentenced to 50 yrs.; the other one to Life.
Dennis Williams While incarcerated on Illinois's death row in a cell located just steps from the electric chair, DNA tests helped prove his innocence.
Innocence Project The Innocence Project is a national litigation adn public polity organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA test and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent further injustice. Quoted from Innocence Project Darnell Williams See Page 2 "In Brief" Section.
Ohio Innocence Project director Mark Godsey is every convict’s fairy godmother.
Historically Interesting Famous Trials by Douglas O. Linder (2008)
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY (UMKC) SCHOOL OF LAW The Dreyfus Affair Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935) In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an officer on the French general staff, is accused of spying for Germany, France's opponent in the last war. The only evidence is a scrap of paper, retrieved from the wastebasket by a cleaning woman, with handwriting that does not much resemble that of Dreyfus. But Dreyfus is Jewish, the only Jew on the general staff. And Jews are considered people without a fatherland, insufficiently loyal to the country they live in. Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French Army was convicted of treason before a crowd hurling anti-Semitic epithets and on January 5, 1895 publicly demoted and exiled for life to Devil's Island off the coast of South America.
Sacco and Vanzetti A Famous American Trial Eugene Debs Ran for President while in jail. Tokyo Rose Iva Toguri d'Aquino of WWII Fame Rosenberg Case Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950 a few weeks after the Korean war he began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The charge against the Rosenbergs was vague - "Conspiracy to Commit Espionage." But what they were really tried and sentenced for giving the secret of the atomic bomb to the USSR. Rosenberg Sons Say Father Was Guilty, Mother Was Framed (in 2008)
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