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AMERICAN POOR ARE NEVER GOING 2 FORGET TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK PERRY'S CALLOUS MENTALITY
by LFPA VOLUNTEERS Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 at 11:49 AM

THE RANT 4 STATES RIGHTS BY TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK PERRY SHOULD FRIGHTEN ALL CARING AMERICANS....

LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS COULD VERY WELL IN THE NEAR FUTURE BE CALLING ON VARIOUS OTHER WWW BLOGGERS TO ANSWER OUR COUNTRIES CALL TO HELP BRING NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION TO THIS VERY OBVIOUS DISGRACEFUL TEXAS JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT WILL EXECUTE FIRST & THEN TAKE DNA TESTS TO FIND OUT IF THE CORRECT POORER PRISON INMATE WAS INDEED THE TRUE CRIMINAL !!!

AMERICA OBVIOUSLY CONTINUES TO HAVE CERTAIN COLD CALLOUS STATE GOVERNORS LIKE TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK PERRY WHO ARE WILLING TO PULL THE PLUG ON EVEN POSSIBLE INNOCENT POORER AMERICANS PRIOR OFFERING THEM PROPER LEGAL COUNSEL TO DEFEND THERE NON~GUILT.

GOVERNOR RICK PERRY DID NOT HAVE THE LEAST BIT OF HESITATION ALLOWING TEXAS RESIDENT HANK SKINNER TO BE EXECUTED LAST YEAR KNOWING HE MIGHT NOT EVEN BE GUILTY OF THE CONVICTED CRIME TEXAS CLAIMED HE COMMITTED.

LUCKY FOR MR. SKINNER THEIR ARE MORE CARING MINDS IN WASHINGTON DC (U.S. SUPREME COURT ) WHO FELT HANK SKINNER MIGHT JUST DESERVE A DNA TEST PRIOR HIS POSSIBLE WRONGFUL TEXAS EXECUTION AND ARE CURRENTLY VIEWING HIS LEGAL CASE !!!

SINCE GOVERNOR RICK PERRY IS CURRENTLY TELLING ALL AMERICA THAT WASHINGTON HAS TOO MUCH POWER OVER STATE ISSUES,WE CAN ALL JUST ONLY IMAGINE IF THIS MAN WERE TO EVER SOMEHOW GET HIS WAY HOW MANY OTHER POSSIBLE INNOCENT POORER AMERICANS LIKE MR SKINNER MIGHT FARE IN THE FUTURE RICK PERRY STATE OF TEXAS... WITHOUT FEDERAL OVERSIGHT ???

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DECEMBER 11, 2010 4:56 PM YOU ARE HERE:HOME NEWS DNA TEST IN TEXAS CAST DOUBT ON AN EXECUTED MAN’S GUILT

DNA Test in Texas Cast Doubt on an Executed Man’s Guilt
Posted by Erin on December 8, 2010 in News, U.S. | 0 Comment

Early last month, a DNA test on a single strand of hair has cast doubt on the guilt of a Texas man who was put to death 10 years ago in the last execution under then-Governor George W. Bush. He was executed for a liquor store murder. Claude Jones was convicted in the murder by the hair, the only physical evidence linking Jones to the crime scene. The execution went forward ten years ago even though Jones was asking for a genetic analysis on the strand, a fact that Bush’s staff failed to mention to him.

The recently completed DNA analysis found it did not belong to Jones and instead may have come from the murder victim. Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, a New York legal center that uses DNA to exonerate inmates, worked on Jones’ case and acknowledged that the hair doesn’t prove an innocent man was put to death. He does claim that the findings mean the evidence was insufficient under Texas law to convict Jones. Jones, a career criminal, denied killing the liquor store owner right up until his execution in December of 2000. As the scheduled execution date grew closer, Jones pressed the governor’s office for permission to do a DNA test on the hair. But the briefing papers Bush was given by his staff didn’t include the request for the testing, and Bush denied a reprieve, according to state documents obtained by the Innocence Project.

Scheck said he believes "to a moral certainty" that Bush would have granted a 30-day reprieve had he known Jones was seeking DNA testing. "It is absolutely outrageous that no one told him that Claude Jones was asking for a DNA test," Scheck said. "If you can’t rely on the governor’s staff to inform him, something is really wrong with the system." In the nearly 35 years since capital punishment was reinstated in the U.S., there has never been a case in which someone was definitively proven innocent after being executed. That would be an explosive finding, since it would corroborate what opponents of the death penalty have long argued: that the legal system is flawed and that capital punishment could result in a grave and irreversible error. However, there has been definitive proof that the U.S. has condemned innocent people to die and the convicted have been released, sometimes after years in prison.

The other primary evidence against Jones came from one of two alleged accomplices, Timothy Jordan. Jordan, who did not enter the liquor store, but was believed to have planned the robbery and provided the gun, testified that Jones told him he was the triggerman. However, under Texas law, accomplice testimony isn’t enough to convict someone and must be supported by other evidence. In addition, Jordan recanted his testimony three years after Jones was executed, saying he was scared. The hair in the Jones case was tested 10 years after the execution, at the request of his son Duane, along with the Innocence Project,other groups and The Texas Observer magazine. Prosecutors agreed to the testing. "At the very least, if they had tested his DNA before he was executed, he could have gotten a new trial or his sentence overturned or changed," Duane Jones said Thursday. He said his father "told me that he had robbed banks, that he was a thief. But he wasn’t a person who would go out and murder someone on the street."

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