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...Neal's mother eventually married Philip Harrison, an Army staff sergeant, who imposed, naturally enough, a disciplined upbringing on a boy who was growing at an unruly rate. "I never see my biological dad," says the unmarried O'Neal, who has two children of his own, Taahirah, 4, and Shareef, 6 months, who live with their mothers. "Don't even know what he looks like. What if that guy had raised me? Who knows where I'd be? If I had to do it all over again, would I change it? The answer...
REPRIEVE Four years ago this month, New Orleans teenager Shareef Cousin briefly became America's youngest condemned man. Charged at 16 with killing Michael Gerardi, 25, in a French Quarter street robbery, the clean-cut Cousin never quite fit the part. After his conviction, appeals lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith unearthed a host of prosecutorial misdeeds, including false police statements and suppressed evidence that placed Cousin squarely in the middle of a recreation-league basketball game at the time of the murder...
...first-place prize for magazine writing for their Jan. 19 article, "Dead Teen Walking," a sobering account of youngsters on death row. In their story Willwerth, a Los Angeles-based correspondent, and Farley, a senior writer, raised some troubling questions about the conduct of prosecutors in the trial of Shareef Cousin, a black New Orleans teenager convicted of murder and sentenced, at age 16, to death. In part because of their investigation, a Louisiana state supreme court has granted Cousin a new trial, tentatively scheduled for December. Says Willwerth: "Having the chance to help right an injustice is a precious...
...TRIAL GRANTED. To SHAREEF COUSIN, a 19-year-old on death row and the subject of a Jan. 19, 1998, TIME investigation; by the Louisiana Supreme Court; in New Orleans. Citing the prosecutor's "flagrant misuse" of key evidence, the justices reversed Cousin's murder conviction in a 7-to-0 decision...
...case the prosecution made against accused teenage murderer Shareef Cousin was flimsy, the witnesses uncertain, the evidence insufficient [CRIME, Jan. 19]. It angers me to see a boy just a few years older than I convicted of a horrendous crime while the prosecutors know he may be innocent. Cousin stands in the middle of a blizzard of controversy, screaming for answers, while truth and innocence are lost. Fingers were pointed at a black kid because there was a white victim. Wake up, America! The answers to problems in the judicial system are not on death row. TINGTING PENG...