U.S. Supreme Court
Apr. 27, 2011
When Good Facts Don’t Necessarily Make Good Law
U.S. Supreme Court ruling stacks the odds against victims seeking retribution for deliberate prosecutorial misconduct.
Michael H. Leb
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Former death row inmate John Thompson speaks at a news conference after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a $14 million judgement in his favor.
John Thompson spent 18 years in a Louisiana prison, 14 of them on death row, following convictions for attempted armed robbery and murder. Thompson, who was about 5 feet, 8 inches tall with a large Afro, was convicted of murder despite an initial eyewitness description of the perpetrator as "about 6-feet tall with closely cropped hair." T...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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