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...years to come. On a 5-4 vote, a sharply divided Court said thatrace cannot be the predominant factor in drawing up election districts. The decision could make it much more difficult for blacks in southern states to be elected to Congress, saysTIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "In Alabama and Louisiana, two states with large black minorities, you could once again see an all-white congressional delegation. In the civil rights movement," says Cohen, "the pendulum has always swung only one way, toward greater minority voting rights. Now, with this decision, the pendulum is sharply swinging back." Writing...
Judy Haney sits on death row in Wetumpka, Alabama, convicted in 1988 of murdering her husband, who she says routinely beat her and her children. Women who kill an abusive spouse almost never receive the death penalty. But Haney's defense was not all it might have been: one of her attorneys, for instance, came to court so drunk that the judge halted the proceedings and sent the man to jail overnight. When the trial resumed the next day, Haney was convicted and sentenced...
...face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." In 1972 the High Court extended this rule to all crimes, including misdemeanors, that result in imprisonment for any length of time. But ensuring this right falls, ultimately, on local jurisdictions, which vary wildly from one place to the next. Alabama, for example, has a state cap of $1,000 for out-of-court fees for defending a death-penalty case, while in Indiana the average expenditure on capital cases is $53,000. In some states, including Minnesota, Connecticut, Mississippi, Illinois and Indiana, the indigent-defense system is so inadequate that...
Federal authorities arrested Christopher Johnson on arson charges, accusing him of having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...
...losing continued on the team's California spring break trip; the Crimson lost five straight matches. But the losing streak was constructive: the losses--to highly acclaimed programs such as UCLA, Southern California and South Alabama--served as a mid-season wake-up call...