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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 07:55 PM
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UPDATE: Ken Starr Withdraws Death Row Case Papers (Cheney-like "OOPS!")
Tuesday February 14, 2006 12:01 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr and another attorney said Monday they were withdrawing sworn statements submitted in a bid to spare a man from execution.0

Prosecutors had denounced the letters from jurors, which asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare the man's life, as forgeries, and the defense team initially stood by them.

But in a letter to Attorney General Bill Lockyer, attorney David Senior said he and Starr were ``withdrawing any and all reliance on any exhibits generated'' by one of their investigators. The defense said it would withdraw five of the six statements.

A statement purportedly taken from Michael Morales' former roommate and submitted to the California Supreme Court also requires further investigation, Senior wrote.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5616444,00.html

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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 08:03 PM
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1. OK. Then what?

Seems like they're admitting submitting phoney documents.

Charges?

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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 08:08 PM
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3. Nope. SOunds like they have plausible denialability
and a scape goat all picked out.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 10:32 PM
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4. I'll bet they are beyond the law... He did Clinton. Lifetime free pass.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 08:04 PM
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2. Too late, you can't un-ring a bell
And you can't un-tell a lie. Hope they burn Starr for perjury - but they won't.
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