Word: murdered
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...Former Friend. After Rowell was arrested and charged with nine armed robberies, he was asked by his lawyer, George Simno, if he had any information that might lessen his sentence. Rowell hesitated and said he knew something about "the hamburger murder"--and then gave up Cousin for the Gerardi murder. However, at Cousin's trial nine months later, Rowell recanted completely and testified that he had only said what prosecutors and his lawyer told...
...case Kyles v. Whitley, the Supreme Court blasted Connick's office for its failure to disclose evidence favorable to a defendant during a murder trial. Such evidence, called "Brady material" after a precedent-setting case, is supposed to be turned over to ensure a fair trial, based on all the facts. Many defense attorneys around New Orleans say Connick's office continues to flout the law. In the past three months, says local defense lawyer Rick Tessier, Connick's office has withheld favorable evidence three times in three separate capital cases in which he's been involved. "Capital cases...
...what about the evidence that indicates that Cousin was at a basketball game or on his way home with coach White around the time of the murder? "We investigated that alibi seriously," says Jordan. "We had witnesses telling us these games usually lasted 35 to 40 minutes. The defense was trying to make a 40-minute basketball game into an hour and a half." Of course, the key question is when the game started--and White and several other witnesses say it started around 9:30 p.m., leaving Cousin, if he was the killer, an improbably small amount of time...
...very hard to sit on that witness stand and breathe the same air as he, Shareef, does," she says. "He knows what I know. Unfortunately, Shareef and I are the only two people left who know what happened." There was something about him on the night of the murder, she says, that she can't shake. "He was the one who made eye contact," says Babin. "I watched his face. I watched his hands. I'll live with that. That's the face Michael...
...also makes it harder to connect the criminal to the crime. "By the time the state gets around to executing these people, the kid who committed the crime no longer exists," says lawyer David Bruck, who is handling the appeal of Joseph Hudgins, 22, who was convicted of murder at age 17 in South Carolina and sentenced to death. "It is almost as if in some nightmarish procedure the state has arbitrarily substituted one person for another prior to the execution...