“The Parole Board has the sole constitutional authority to commute, or reduce, a death sentence to life without parole. Only after an inmate appears to have exhausted all appeals and other judicial avenues of relief will the Parole Board consider granting a commutation to a death-sentenced inmate. At that time, the condemned inmate

And I was actually speaking to two different posts. I did not mean to infer that it was your opinion of the police, but it seems clear that it is Sarawara’s opinion. Personally, I think it is because (s)he watches too much Cold Case and CSI.

I do not think that you have a clear idea of the number of people that would have to be involved in this large scale conspiracy of yours, but I don’t think that you actually care either. Whatever makes the cops look bad, right? At least, until you need one.

At least Erick admits he just doesn’t care if mistakes are made rather than pretending they never occur.

I appears that he can not appeal, because the appeals court doesn’t want to listen to him.

So the Pardons and Parole Board issues a stay so they can either pardon or parole him?

Does P&P have the power to order a new trial?

There is not much here that makes sense.

I bet if you were pressured to lie in open court under threats from cops and the DA, and you were wracked with guilt over the possibility that your perjury might be sending someone to their death unfairly, you’d have a mighty good memory about it 15 years later. I sure would.

The witnesses don’t say their memories improved or changed. They say they forced to give inaccurate testimony and to sign statements identifying the shooter that were untrue. Maybe you think our legal system doesn’t ever need to correct miscarriages of justice and we can just rely on what was said in court and never ask ourselves if it was accurate later on…and if so, you’re entitled to your opinions obviously. Thankfully the P&P board disagreed with you and wants to examine the evidence. He might still die, but at least this way those who care about such things will say that he got a fair examination of the new evidence and testimony.

And you’re right Sar, the federal court didn’t hear from the witnesses. They have these things called transcripts. It is a record of what was said in court. Pretty common thing really. Of course, it assumes 1) people tell the truth in their sworn testimony, and 2) people remember things better at the time or a short time after something happens than more than a decade later.

Oh, and Spacey, right on the money as usual.

It would be nice if people could be bothered to actually read the facts of this case before pronouncing desire to see this man die. For example, most do not know that whoever shot the police officer on the night in question also beat and shot 2 other men. Both of those men survived, and both have said Davis was not their shooter. There is a lot about this case that should bother both death penalty advocates and opponents. It does not benefit the cause of death penalty advocates to have blatantly unjust executions of people who are probably innocent. As someone else said above, this is exactly the sort of thing that will turn the public tide against capital punishment for good if it keeps happening. The Innocence Project has gotten over 100 death row inmates out of jail by demonstrating their actual innocence. How many mistakes do you think were made before the advent of DNA testing? How many are acceptable to you as part of the cost of executing murderers?