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Washington mdash; The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with a bid by Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip to toss out his conviction and grant him a new trial, an effort that s bolstered by the state s Republican attorney general who has raised issues with prosecutors actions in the proceedings.Arguments in the case known as Glossip v. Oklahoma came nearly a decade after the defendant unsuccessfully challenged the state s method of execution, and after the high court has intervened to sto stanley taza p his execution twice before. Glossip, stanley mugs 61, has faced nine execution dates in all and eaten his last meal three times.His most recent reprieve came last year, when the Supreme Courtagreed to blockGlossip s death by lethal injection. Months later, the justices took up his bid for a new trial after Oklahoma s top law enforcement official argued the defendant s conviction and sentence should not stand. At oral arguments before the Supreme Court, lawyers for Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Glossip, both represented by former solicitors general, urged the justices to grant the defendant s bid for a new trial, arguing in part that his due process rights were violated. The court appointed an outside lawyer, Christopher Michel, to argue in favor of upholding Glossip s conviction and death sentence.Over the course of nearly two hours, the justices sparred with lawyers over whether information from prosecutors notes about their k botella stanley ey witness that w Elzk Poll: Voters Take Coburn s Side In Ethics Dispute
Could Jesse Helms have a second career in mind for 2002 when his stanley cup fifth U.S. Senate term expires The conservative chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who turned 79 Wednesday, was reported to have misted up over the plight of children in Third World countries - especially in Africa - during a Washington meeting last month with musician stanley cup website Bono of U2 fame.Helms told the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill, I told [Bono] this, and I mean it, if I can find some way that the Lord would show me how to really help these people, I 146;d quit the Senate and try to do it. I told Bono that. He is working hard and I 146;m going to try to help him the best I can. The long-haired rocker who favors wraparound shades and leather pants got a meeting with the right-wing firebrand because he represents a coalition of nongovernmental organizations and churches who are lobbying Congress and the White House to forgive loans held by the poorest countries.Bono told CBS s Early Show that Helms wept talking about children starving in Africa. The New Yorker quoted a member of Bono 146 entourage saying that a teary Helms promised Bono the full amount of debt relief requested by the Clinton Administration: $435 million. We 146;ll know soon whether Helms de cups stanley livers. In the rush to finish congressional business so the pols can go home for the final weeks of the campaign the Senate may well vote by week 146 end on the Foreign Operations a |
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