Word: smith
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...shipped to Yellowstone and Idaho have multiplied to 165--90 in Yellowstone and 75 in Idaho. Shipping them back to Canada is not an option, since the territory they abandoned has been claimed by other wolves. Placement in zoos--where wolves aren't popular--is difficult. "The options," says Smith, "could come down to one thing: killing them...
...Friday, Jan 25, 1996, at 11 p.m., Clive Stafford-Smith, a British-born defense attorney living in New Orleans, was awakened by a phone call. It was a lawyer named Willard Hill, whose teenage client, Shareef Cousin, had just been convicted of murder by a jury. Hill, a local defense lawyer, hadn't expected to lose, and now he needed help to keep Cousin off death row. Could Stafford-Smith help him organize an "emergency" case for the penalty hearing? Stafford-Smith yawned and signed...
...arrived too late to testify as a character witness, and because Cousin had, a few weeks earlier, accepted a 4-count plea on some robbery charges (an agreement he now claims was coerced), he was effectively portrayed by prosecutors as a hardened criminal and was sentenced to death. Stafford-Smith has been working on Shareef's appeal ever since. "When I was a kid, I read about America's having the death penalty," he says. "I couldn't believe it. I was absolutely horrified. I thought I'd come over here and straighten out the colonies. I'm afraid...
...Stafford-Smith says Shareef was convicted and sentenced to death for political and racial reasons. "There's a crime in the French Quarter, a big tourist area," he says. "A white guy is murdered by three people identified as black. You're dealing with serious pressure...Then James Rowell gets busted for a whole slew of robberies. My read is, Rowell led them to Shareef. This is a classic case, where the snitch provides the first lead. When Rowell fingers Shareef, the cops say, 'Hey, we've got our guy.' They come to Connie Babin...
...Stafford-Smith says there are several key elements that point toward his client's innocence...