Word: stephen
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...motion, if it is granted, will provide a new trial for McVeigh. But if Matsch rejects the motion, McVeigh's chief attorney, Stephen Jones, can also appeal the sentence and the conviction to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. The Court of Appeals, unlike the Supreme Court, cannot choose to ignore a request for an appeal...
...greenhorns and burnouts better suited to traffic court--or, in their appeal stage, by no one at all. And where the case against McVeigh seems gold-plated, other defendants are sentenced to death on the basis of flimsy evidence, jury whim, prosecutorial misconduct or the luck of the draw. Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, says that in three capital cases in Houston recently defense lawyers were observed to be sleeping during the trial. All three convictions were upheld on appeal, and one of the defendants has been executed...
...people to death has become a part of life. That is especially true in Texas, which has had 127 executions since 1976, almost a third of the national total. Today 448 people wait on death row in Texas. "If they keep going at the rate they're going," says Stephen Bright, "it won't be long before Texas will have executed more people than all the rest of the states put together. They execute so many people that nobody pays any attention...
...wrongdoing by officials high and low began landing in the Pentagon's backyard. Army Major General John Longhouser, commanding general of Aberdeen Proving Ground, decided last week to retire after a telephone tipster told Army investigators of an affair Longhouser had had five years ago. Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved of the command of all Army medical operations in the Southeast region two weeks ago because of an apparent "improper relationship" with a civilian nurse who was caring for his ill wife. And last week Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, the top enlisted soldier...
DENVER: Legal analysts and other court watchers following the Oklahoma City bombing trial often criticized Timothy McVeigh's lead attorney, Stephen Jones, for his staged media leaks and risky arguments. Now, it seems even McVeigh has turned on his lawyer: Legal sources tell CNN that McVeigh is considering using "quality of attorneys" as one avenue for his appeal, despite the fact that his defense cost taxpayers $10 million. If that doesn?t float, other issues under consideration as grounds for appeal include Judge Richard Matsch's ban on the defense theory that foreign terrorists were at the heart...