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Kylleen Hargrave-Thomas, 53, has always claimed her innocence in the brutal stabbing murder of her boyfriend 14 years ago. In 2002, U.S. District Judge Paul Gadola overturned her conviction, saying her trial lawyers had been "manifestly and flagrantly ineffective." She was released, but last year a federal appeals court reversed the ruling. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take her case. Next week a judge will decide whether to revoke her bond. Unless Granholm intervenes to grant clemency, Hargrave-Thomas will probably go back to serving a life sentence...
...just praying the Governor will help me," Hargrave-Thomas says. But that is no easy decision. Hargrave-Thomas has a broad range of supporters--from Democratic Senator Carl Levin to Judge Gadola, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has publicly said she "very likely is innocent." But the victim's family opposes setting her free, and if Granholm did so, she would risk being labeled soft on crime. G.O.P. state chairman Saul Anuzis last week issued a statement warning the Governor not "to release a convicted murderer due to political pressure." --By James Carney
...head says Auteuil, Mortensen or Murray - whichever of this trio is in a film that doesn't get another top prize. (The Jury, remember, is discouraged from duplicating.) I might seem long-shot smart to suggest that Matteo Gadola, the boy in Once You're Born, has a chance - because last year's winner in this category was 14-year-old Yuuya Yagira in the Japanese drama Nobody Knows. But that's my heart speaking, not my smart. I think the boy is utterly beguiling. And I know the film doesn't stand a chance. (See below...
...Once You're Born (from the fatalistic saying, "Once you're born you can't hide") is the story of how the "immigrant problem" touches a well-bred boy from the Northern city of Brescia. Sandro (the exceptional first-time actor Matteo Gadola) is the only child of a loving couple (Alessio Boni and Michela Cescon) who run a factory that employs mostly immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe. One night, on a yacht excursion with his dad and uncle, Sandro falls overboard and, when his absence isn't noticed, prepares to die. He calls "Papa!" for help, whispers "Mama...
...records of the Western Union Telegraph Co., and by the testimony of press association and other reporters, that I attended the five consecutive sessions of the committee from October 17 to 21, inclusive, which covered the testimony on the Michigan sitdown strikes, including the testimony of Judge Gadola and ex-City Manager Barringer that the "treasonable" conduct of Governor Murphy had resulted in "a breakdown of civil authority." We cannot hope to stop that type of reporting in the Tribune, but we may succeed in making it embarrassing...