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...choose to hold a retrial, athough they do have that option. According to Neufeld, none of the 201 exonerations have resulted in a guilty verdict after a retrial. Bob Keller, the district attorney in the case of Calvin Johnson, who served more than 15 years in a Georgia prison for a rape he didn't commit, did not prosecute Johnson again. "I applaud the efforts of the Innocence Project," Keller says. "If not for that project, Calvin would still be in jail, which would be an absolute travesty." Keller now works with the Georgia Innocence Project, trying to get legislation...
...form letter from Martha Stewart, written on her trademark Living stationery and sent to supporters during her prison stay, sells for $25. An envelope hand-addressed by jailed Panamanian General Manuel Noriega is $350. Both are for sale on "true crime" Internet sites. But beyond the odd curiosity of a prison thank-you note from America's housekeeping guru and an innocuous envelope from a fallen dictator lies the online shopping world of macabre, shocking and soul-chilling prison collectibles - magazine fashion ads defaced with satanic symbols and stained with the bodily fluids of a campus shooter, a sketch...
...good. Odd and rare is really good," says Tod Bohannon, who operates murderauction.com out of his Georgia home. But Bohannon, who describes his passion for prison memorabilia as a "hobby," is concerned that a proposed federal law could shut him down. The bill, filed in late May by Republican Senator John Cornyn, takes aim at the trade by forbidding prisoners from using the U.S. Postal Service to deliver or receive items for profit. The bill has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it is likely to face criticism from civil-liberties groups and support from victims' rights advocates...
...dollar "stars" of the sites are Charles Manson, serving life in prison for murder, and the late John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer executed in 1994. Manson's prison art gets three- and four-figure prices; even his prison flip-flops are for sale. On daisyseven.com - whose logo proclaims "Where Crime Pays. Every Day" - a license plate from Gacy's snow plow is up for $1,700, a Gacy rosary...
...impossible to screen every piece of mail, says Michelle Lyons, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and mail to and from attorneys and the media is privileged. Random screening does catch some illegal activity, which can be punished with the loss of privileges and more prison time. When prison authorities found out the so-called "Railway Killer" Angel Maturino Resendiz was selling his fingernail clippings from prison, prior to his execution in June 2006, his mail was flagged, but not before the items made it out into the marketplace...