"Just 88 minutes before the February 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham [CTW], Gov. Rick Perry's office received by fax a crucial arson expert's opinion that later ignited a political firestorm over whether Texas, on Perry's watch, used botched forensic evidence to send a man to his death. ...At 6:20 pm [CTW] was executed after declaring: 'I am an innocent man, convicted of a crime I did not commit.' ... Yet Perry's office has taken the position that any documents showing his own review and staff discussion of the [CTW] case are not public--a claim the Chronicle disputes. ... By execution day, Perry was [CTW's] last chance. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected a reprieve, calling the arson expert's report 'no more than an opinion'," my emphasis, Lise Olsen at the Houston Chronicle, 11 October 2009, link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6662113.html.
To develop contempt for judges, read 5th Circuit criminal decisions regularly. Do these black-robed incompetents deny the DA presented "expert" opinion at trial that arson ocurred? These clowns lack intellectual integrity. Read a case like Boss v. Quarterman, 552 F3d 425 (5th Cir., 2008) find its logic. I dare you. It's, "Them damn niggahs be locked up and we don't wanna hear from 'em".
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Sadly noted without comment.
we don't care about no stinking truth. we'll just make the facts fit our preconceived notions. it carries over into so many facets of our lives: your blogs on 'our declining IQ/income/success' are a great reaction to the inanities of the unwashed, unthinking liberals. and yes, i may be a liberal in many things, but i'm also a realist and i know the difference between lies, damned lies and statistics.
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