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Reversible Errors is based in part on Turow’s own experience in Illinois. Although all of the facts surrounding Gandolph’s crime have been invented, the basic premise of the situation—a confessed and condemned murder suddenly begins pleading innocence, and another convict claims to have committed the crime—loosely parallels the case of former Illinois death row inmates Rolando Cruz and his co-defendant Alex Hernandez, whom Turow represented in appeal in 1991. A fabricated confession, as well as significant oversight and mishandling of the case by detectives, led to their...
...seen as a compromiser, getting things done on Capitol Hill. And his base isn’t displeased—what they get are policies that are still well right of center, just not as crazy. The tribunals, not law courts, are still there to try, and convict, the accused. And even after Democratic scrutiny, Tom Ridge’s new homeland security fiefdom is still decidedly anti-union...
...Giuffrè had never mentioned my name before today," Dell'Utri said, referring to previous closed-door depositions. "What mutual interests are going on here?" Should turncoat informants like Giuffrè be believed? Since changes in the law in the 1980s, Italian magistrates have used Mafia collaborators to convict hundreds of fellow mobsters and dozens of corrupt politicians. But the pool of credible turncoats has largely dried up. Antonio Ingroia, lead prosecutor against Dell'Utri, said the case is just the latest chapter in the Mob's storied links with elected officials. "Cosa Nostra is an organization that...
...mixed up Tiger Woods with Bagger Vance--the angelic black caddy in the eponymous film who uses supernatural powers to help a white golf pro get over the yips and straighten out his love life. Or perhaps they have confused the world's best golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come...
...independence activist Manuel Carrascalao, and for crimes against humanity during East Timor's bloody break with Indonesia in 1999; in Jakarta. The sentence was the stiffest yet imposed by a special tribunal investigating the killings of more than 1,000 East Timorese. But the court has yet to convict any members of the Indonesian military, which had control over militias like Aitarak. Guterres remains free pending an appeal that may not be heard for several years...