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The 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...
The 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...
The Supreme Court, in denying Mr. Jacobs' stay, did not issue an opinion. How could they? How could they endorse the preposterous claims of the lower court, even implicitly, by claiming, like the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans: "It is not for us...
And yet that is exactly what they have done. By refusing to grant Jacobs' stay, our nation's highest court became complicit in a judicial homicide. Save for the dissent by Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer, the court prioritized procedure over good sense and let an innocent man be killed...
Jacobs' criminal history was a veritable laundry list of felonies. But that does little to excuse the callousness with which his case was handled.