Watch the full interview with Troy Davis’ lawyer
10:38 am, January 26th, 2012
For those interested in viewing Jay Ewart’s remarks at Emory University in their entirety, the school has helpfully posted video of last week’s event.
Ewart, a 2003 graduate of Emory’s law school and an associate at Arnold & Porter in Washington, was pro bono counsel for Troy Davis, executed in September for the 1989 shooting of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Backed by Ewart, other lawyers and a worldwide network of activists, Davis had long maintained his innocence.
Emory law professor Kay L. Levine’s Q&A with Ewart can be found on the video following a pitch for Emory’s fundraising campaign by an Emory law student. Our reporting on the highlights of the event can be found here.
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January 27th, 2012 at 7:21 am
Troy Davis & The Innocent Frauds of the anti death penalty lobby
Dudley Sharp
The Troy Davis campaign, like many before it (1), is a simple, blatant fraud, easily uncovered by the most basic of fact checking (1).
The case for Davis’ guilt is overwhelming, just as were his due process protections, which may have surpassed that of all but a few death row inmates.
The 2010 federal court innocence hearing found:
” . . . Mr. Davis is not innocent: the evidence produced at the hearing on the merits of Mr. Davis’s claim of actual innocence and a complete review of the record in this case does not require the reversal of the jury’s judgment that Troy Anthony Davis murdered City of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail on August 19, 1989.” (2)
“Ultimately, while Mr. Davis’s new evidence casts some additional, minimal doubt on his conviction, it is largely smoke and mirrors.” (2)
“As a body, this evidence does not change the balance of proof that was presented at Mr.
Davis’s trial.”(2)
“The vast majority of the evidence at trial remains intact, and the new evidence is largely not credible or lacking in probative value.” (2)
None of this came as a surprise to anyone who actually followed the case, in contrast to the Save Troy Davis folks who were, willingly, duped.
1) a) “Troy Davis: Worldwide anti death penalty deceptions, rightly, failed”,
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2011/09/25/troy-davis-worldwide-anti-death-penalty-deceptions-rightly-failed.aspx
b) “Troy Davis fairly convicted, not ‘railroaded’ ”
http://savannahnow.com/column/2011-10-06/column-spencer-lawton-troy-davis-fairly-convicted-not-railroaded
2) “Innocence Hearing”, ordered by the US Supreme Court, US DISTRICT COURT, in the SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, SAVANNAH DIV.,RE TROY ANTHONY DAVIS, CASE NO. CV409-130
http://multimedia.savannahnow.com/media/pdfs/DavisRuling082410.pdf