Today’s piece is very interesting, but leaves me wanting to know more about that time in our country. Seems to me the Court was very “activist” during those years.
Can anyone recommend good books about that period?
How Clarence Thomas and SCOTUS were beaten and reveresed by the new Democrat Arizona AG and Pima County DA. An innocent project finally got Barry Jones off death row for a crime he didn't commit.
But Republican AG Mark Brnovitch and Clarence Thomas said, "Innocence does not matter".
An evidentiary hearing held by US District Court Judge Timothy Burgess, confirmed Barry Jones was innocent due to the Medical Examiners changing the time of death window from 24 to hrs. But Republican AG Mark Brnovich appealed to SCOTUS-
"During oral argument, the attorney general’s office said that it didn’t matter if the evidence showed Jones was not responsible for the crime that sent him to death row. “Innocence isn’t enough,” the state’s lawyer, Brunn Wall Roysden III, said. In May 2022, the justices agreed, reinstating Jones’s death sentence and destroying a lifeline for incarcerated people whose lawyers failed them at trial."
The new AZ AG stopped executions. Allowing Jones kegal team to do a deal to get released.
"On April 19, US District Judge Burgess approved the settlement agreement between Jones’s attorneys and the state. Two weeks later, Sandman filed a petition with the Pima County Superior Court requesting that Jones’s conviction be overturned. The state would agree to the request on the condition that Jones plead guilty to the agreed-upon charge. He would then be sentenced to 25 years with credit for time served."
Today’s piece is very interesting, but leaves me wanting to know more about that time in our country. Seems to me the Court was very “activist” during those years.
Can anyone recommend good books about that period?
How Clarence Thomas and SCOTUS were beaten and reveresed by the new Democrat Arizona AG and Pima County DA. An innocent project finally got Barry Jones off death row for a crime he didn't commit.
But Republican AG Mark Brnovitch and Clarence Thomas said, "Innocence does not matter".
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/17/barry-jones-released-arizona-death-row/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
An evidentiary hearing held by US District Court Judge Timothy Burgess, confirmed Barry Jones was innocent due to the Medical Examiners changing the time of death window from 24 to hrs. But Republican AG Mark Brnovich appealed to SCOTUS-
"During oral argument, the attorney general’s office said that it didn’t matter if the evidence showed Jones was not responsible for the crime that sent him to death row. “Innocence isn’t enough,” the state’s lawyer, Brunn Wall Roysden III, said. In May 2022, the justices agreed, reinstating Jones’s death sentence and destroying a lifeline for incarcerated people whose lawyers failed them at trial."
The new AZ AG stopped executions. Allowing Jones kegal team to do a deal to get released.
"On April 19, US District Judge Burgess approved the settlement agreement between Jones’s attorneys and the state. Two weeks later, Sandman filed a petition with the Pima County Superior Court requesting that Jones’s conviction be overturned. The state would agree to the request on the condition that Jones plead guilty to the agreed-upon charge. He would then be sentenced to 25 years with credit for time served."