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...time he lived there, first as a young bachelor and then with Laura, he fit right in with a place known for casting a cold eye on uppity outsiders. "In Midland if you take yourself too seriously, someone will shut you down real fast," says Robert McCleskey, one of Bush's many friends who hail from and still live in that small city...
...issue has endured a long struggle in Washington. In 1987, Warren McCleskey, a black factory worker in Atlanta, brought an appeal before the Supreme Court. McCleskey, who had been sentenced to death in the killing of a white police officer in 1978, argued that sentencing patterns in Georgia proved racial bias. The court fractured 5-4 against McCleskey, even though Antonin Scalia conceded, in a note to Thurgood Marshall, that prosecutorial and jury decisions are influenced by "the unconscious operation of irrational sympathies and antipathies, including racial." McCleskey was executed in September...
...Rehnquist would not relent. When both federal judges and Democratic leaders in Congress resisted his efforts to expedite executions, he moved to achieve the same result from the high bench this term. His vehicle was a Georgia case, McCleskey v. Zant. Though it meant going further than the case required, the persuasive Chief Justice fashioned a 6-to-3 majority in favor of setting up procedural obstacles to repeated habeas corpus requests...
Last week McCleskey again petitioned the Supreme Court. This time he sought to have his conviction reviewed on the ground that his constitutional right to counsel had been violated when the police used a jailhouse informer to obtain a confession from him; this time the court was even sterner in its rejection. In a 6-to-3 ruling, the majority said such repeated petitions as McCleskey's "threatened to undermine the integrity of the habeas corpus process." Then the court set tough new standards that severely curtail a state prisoner's ability to bring claims of violations of his constitutional...
...introduce testimony dealing with the impact of a crime on a victim's family. The Bush Administration is sending no less a figure than Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to the court to argue for Tennessee's position allowing such impact evidence. After last week's ruling in the McCleskey case, many legal experts are concerned that the Justices this time will side with Tennessee. "The court is quite systematically knocking out regulations, streamlining the road to the electric chair," says Harvard's Kennedy. In the rush to make the process more efficient, the rights of criminal defendants are getting battered...