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...Washington (15) 3-0-0 1491 2 3. Florida St. (2) 3-0-0 1418 3 4. Michigan 1-0-1 1283 6 5. Texas A&M (1) 4-0-0 1265 5 6. Notre Dame 2-0-1 1218 7 7. Alabama (1) 3-0-0 1182 9 8. Tennessee 3-0-0 1138 14 9. Penn St. 3-0-0 1126 10 10. Colorado 3-0-0 924 11 11. UCLA 2-0-0 811 15 12. Ohio St. 3-0-0 795 21 13. Florida 1-1-0 792 4 14. Virginia...
...Carnes has some important supporters, including both of Alabama's Democratic Senators, Richard Shelby and Howell Heflin. A powerful swing vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Heflin complains that Carnes' opponents "view this confirmation as being a referendum on capital punishment, although they deny it." In May, Heflin got the committee to send Carnes' name to the full Senate despite the opposition of the committee chairman, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat...
...consternation of some black civil rights leaders, Morris Dees, the white Alabama civil rights lawyer famed for successfully fighting the Ku Klux Klan in court, is also in the nominee's corner, arguing that Carnes is not a racist but just a man who has capably pursued his duty as a prosecutor. The Harvard-trained lawyer has prosecuted two state judges for making racist remarks in court and has defended blacks in civil rights lawsuits...
...bothers Carnes' critics is that his legal experience consists chiefly of having been an ardent defender of a system of capital punishment that they say is infected by racial discrimination. Carnes said during his April confirmation hearing that capital punishment was not applied in a racially discriminatory manner "in Alabama or in the nation" -- a view in keeping with the Supreme Court's own rulings, though one study after another has demonstrated that blacks who kill whites are far more likely to be sentenced to death than whites who kill blacks...
Lately the attacks on Carnes have widened to include his defense of instances in which prosecutors have resorted to the unconstitutional practice of using courtroom challenges to keep blacks off of juries in trials of black defendants. Rosa Davis, chief of the Alabama attorney general's appeals division, says it's simply Carnes' job to justify the actions of trial prosecutors when one of their convictions is challenged on appeal. "Our arguing for the state doesn't mean that we support racial discrimination," she insists, "any more than someone who represents a convicted murderer supports killing." But Carnes' public statements...