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...well-placed source has confirmed to TIME that Perry ignored the written pleas from several members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, including two of his own appointees, to reappoint the board's well-respected chairman, Austin lawyer Sam Bassett. Bassett's departure has resulted in a delay in an important investigation of evidence in a death-penalty case that critics say will prove an innocent man was executed on Perry's watch. (Read 10 stories of wrongfully imprisoned men exonerated by DNA evidence...
...apparent cusp of the forensics board's re-examination of the evidence in the Willingham case, Perry has not only dropped forensics chairman Bassett but two other members of the body, Fort Worth prosecutor Alan Levy and forensics expert Aliece Watts, both of whom had written letters to Perry in support of Bassett continuing as commission head so their work could continue without interruption. Scheck compared Perry's failure to reappoint the three to the infamous Saturday Night Massacre of 1973 when President Nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal. But Perry's office said the changes were...
...noted Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz has written, those who support the Goldstone Report do so not by drawing on the contents of the report but merely by pointing to the author. “Had Richard Goldstone, a distinguished judge and a prominent Jew, not been the author of the United Nations Human Rights Council,” Dershowitz wrote recently, “it would be tossed in the trash barrel along with other one-sided and biased reports by this prejudice group with targets only Israel for human rights violations...
...Boyer has also authored a pending law awaiting upper-house approval that calls for prison terms and fines for people who encourage and promote anorexia, like those who run so-called pro-ana websites and blogs. However, she says her new proposal was written less out of concern that perfect figures in doctored photos were driving women to develop eating disorders and more out of a fear that enhanced images were giving the public an intentionally fabricated picture of reality. (Read "Study: Is Vegetarianism a Teen Eating Disorder...
...earlier version of the Oct. 2 article "Harvard Voice Denies Hermione-Stalking Allegations" incorrectly stated that the Harvard Voice's blog posts about Emma Watson were written by Voice staffers not present at the Brown-Harvard football game on Sept. 25. In fact, the staffers writing the posts were present at the game, according to Voice editor-in-chief Alisha D. Ramos. The posts were put online with timestamps that indicated they were being posted three hours before gametime, but Ramos later clarified that the stamps were simply incorrect...