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...that reason, cases like Joe Payne's will probably become more common. Originally incarcerated for killing a store clerk, he claims to have been in the shower when Dunford was killed. Several eyewitnesses have since supported his claim and fingered one Robert Smith as the killer. The reason they didn't speak up at his trial, they later said, was that they figured that the worst that could befall Payne was a second life sentence. "[It seemed like] a white guy's problem," Eddie Phillips, who is black, later said. But when Payne got death, "to me it became...
Three eyewitnesses have provided Payne's current lawyer, Paul Khoury, with sworn statements that they saw the murder committed by Robert Smith. Indeed, Smith himself, who became the main state's witness against Payne, later signed a 16-page affidavit stating that he framed Payne because prison officials offered to shave 15 years off his sentence. Thus armed, Khoury marched into a 1991 hearing to reopen his client's case--and was rudely rebuffed. First, Smith recanted his recantation, claiming coercion. Then the judge--who had presided over the original trial--refused to admit Smith's sworn affidavit, ruling that...
Reflected Glory is packed with unflattering anecdotes, reminders that public figures with flavorful private lives should sometimes compromise with their chroniclers. An accessible Harriman might have charmed Bedell Smith into changing her title. Who wants to be remembered as merely a gilded mirror, decorative but empty until an influential man shows...
With enough expensively soiled laundry for a dozen racy novels, Sally Bedell Smith's savvy unauthorized biography, Reflected Glory (Simon & Schuster; 559 pages; $30), reads as if it had written itself. That, of course, is a hard-earned illusion. The former New York Times reporter and author of a book about Paley has dredged decades of letters, memoirs, social histories and newspaper clippings. She has talked to hundreds of Pamela watchers and has had the benefit of reading Christopher Ogden's Life of the Party, a 1994 biography based on taped interviews Harriman gave Ogden and then prevented him from...
...just a pride thing, only to have lost to Princeton," senior right back Whitney Smith said. "They deserved to win the Ivy League. We're not embittered at them--well, we're definitely embittered because we wanted to win the Ivy League--but they were the better team that...