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...innocence" standard and raised one in which lawyers had to prove that "no reasonable juror would have found the ((prisoner)) eligible for the death penalty." Finally, in January 1993, the court ruled that a prisoner may be executed without a hearing unless the new evidence of innocence is virtually airtight. At that time, Justice Rehnquist wrote "of the very disruptive effect that entertaining claims of actual innocence would have on the need for finality in capital cases." He also wrote, "History shows that the traditional remedy for claims of innocence based on new evidence, discovered too late...
...question beforehand was how to tell him that some of the cost estimates and revenue projections in PPF were, to put it mildly, unrealistic. Clinton has a fierce temper -- you don't ever want to be on its receiving end -- and he was convinced the PPF numbers were airtight. So we rehearsed what to say and scripted around a bit in the hope of avoiding an outburst...
...also an editorial decathlon. Thanks to Oliver's airtight deadlines, everything in the magazine had to be written, edited, double- checked for accuracy and put to bed by 6 a.m. Wednesday, no matter how late the returns were. So assistant managing editor Jim Kelly and senior editor Tom Sancton prepared two complete story lists, one in anticipation of a Clinton victory and one in response to the last-minute surge by George Bush. While a few stories appeared on both lists, most hinged on results that wouldn't be available until the final hours. There would be either a story...
...next day, there was a three paragraph brief entitled "Suspects Troubled Past". Beatrice was quoted only as saying her son "spent a troubled youth." None of the readers could see the absolute poverty that this woman was experiencing on the west side of Harlem. The short article masked the airtight trap...
Despite such evidence, the case against Bean-Bayog is by no means airtight. In testimony before the state board, the psychiatrist denied ever having sex with Lozano and maintained that he was far more disturbed than his family is letting on. She described him as "chronically suicidal," the victim of "horrendous childhood abuse," a drug user, and a liar subject to delusions of sexual abuse involving both her and another female psychiatrist. Though a social worker who had worked with Lozano challenges this depiction, other therapists familiar with the case support Bean-Bayog's account...