Lawyers for Troy Anthony Davis Want Rejected Testimony Accepted
Lawyers for Troy Anthony Davis. who was convicted of murder, want a judge to accept rejected testimony that named someone else as the killer.
U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. had refused to consider testimony in a hearing last month that someone else had confessed to killing Savannah, Georgia officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. Troy Davis was convicted of the killing in 1991 based on the testimony of witnesses, many of whom recanted their testimony in the hearing and said they were coerced by the police. No physical evidence against Davis was ever presented.
UPDATE
Davis' attorneys said attorneys for the state failed to give any legal backing for their objection to the alledged confession by Sylvester "Redd" Coles to the killing for which Davis was convicited. http://beta.savannahnow.com/latest-news/2010-08-04/state-missed-boat-troy-davis-team-argues
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For more information on the motion filed, see http://www.wtvm.com/global/story.asp?s=12856107
To see more on Troy Anthony Davis, visit http://www.troyanthonydavis.org/
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Can a man who was convicted of murder be cleared by a hearing? No one's sure how this works.