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...death row, has summarized the flaws in the judicial system that led the Supreme Court to declare all statewide capital punishment laws unconstitutional in 1972: “Being on death row depends so much on class status, economic status, the ability to get adequate representation, how seriously the prosecutor seeks the death penalty, what kind of jury you get. It’s all pretty arbitrary, really...
...fairly typical capital appeal, in which the defense team heaps allegations on the original lawyer - the high-living Mostiler died of a coronary in 2000 - while the prosecution extols the brilliance of the condemned man's trial attorney. "Mostiler was the toughest trial lawyer in Spalding County," one prosecutor declared of a man far better known for engineering guilty pleas than for winning cases in the courtroom...
Obermann alerted the state prosecutor's office on May 14. Friedrich Apostel, the prosecuting attorney in Bonn, where Telekom has its headquarters, said prosecutors would determine in the coming week whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant opening a full-fledged investigation. "We first have to determine whether there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed," he said...
...charges were dismissed without prejudice, meaning that a prosecutor could reinstate them at any time. But few observers expect that to happen, largely because Qahtani underwent protracted torture and the threat of torture during his interrogation at Guantanamo, a process that tainted his confessions as well as the evidence he gave against other prisoners...
...also detained for three days and released on bail. Meanwhile Chikwore's lawyer, Harrison Nkomo, was arrested while waiting to make presentations at the High Court in connection with Chikowore's case. Nkomo, who has represented other foreign journalists detained in Zimbabwe, is said to have told senior prosecutor Michael Mugabe that his "father" should step down. Mugabe entered a four-page complaint and Nkomo was charged with making "dangerous public utterances likely to cause disaffection" with the head of state...