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...kept the windows open, even in the deepest months of winter. Under his blanket he would lie on a forest green, spartanly cushioned sofa, tilting his body perpetually side-ways to face the television set. And although he had a yen for the shows of his younger days--"Hogan's Heroes," and "Quincy," and "The Streets of San Francisco," oh, and John Wayne movies of every make and description--they would be bumped aside quite often for ESPN, when the spirit moved...
...story began in 1986, when Jacobs' sister, Bobbie Jean Hogan, enlisted him to kidnap Urdiales from her Conroe, Texas, apartment. Urdiales was the former wife of Hogan's boyfriend. She had upset Hogan by badgering her former husband for child-support money. At Hogan's prompting, Jacobs adbucted Urdiales from her apartment in Conroe, then took her to a wooded area where he joined his sister Bobbie. Urdiales was killed with a gunshot to the head, and her body buried in a sleeping...
...Oregon federal judge placed the state's new ground-breaking assisted- suicide law in limbo. The measure, approved by referendum in November, would have allowed doctors in the state to help some terminally ill patients end their life, but Judge Michael Hogan issued a preliminary injunction against the law pending hearings on its constitutionality...
...very same prosecutor who won the case against Jacobs attested to the credibility of his new testimony seven months later. The second jury was sufficiently convinced and sentenced Hogan to ten years imprisonment on charges of involuntary-manslaughter. But Jacobs lingered on death row. And now, nearly a decade since the murder, the smoking gun points unambiguously in the direction of the biggest culprit of all: the United States' justice system...
...history of the mismanagement of this case begins in Texas. The state courts, through an incredible contortion of reason and good sense, managed to convict two people for the very same crime. To do that, the courts had to rely on the following incredible contention: the knowledge that Ms. Hogan was in fact the trigger-woman did not constitute new evidence that might bear on the case of Mr. Jacobs. Is that the kind of thinking they teach in law school...