SCOTUS to exonerated death row inmate: Quit your whining that State withheld evidence!

An ideologically-divided Supreme Court overturned a $14 million judgment given to a former death row inmate who accused New Orleans prosecutors of withholding evidence in order to help convict him of murder.

The court's five conservative-leaning justices, in their first ideological victory of the year, said the New Orleans district attorney's office should not be punished for not providing specific training to young prosecutors on Brady rights, which dictate when to turn over evidence to a suspect's lawyer that could prove their client's innocence.

But in a rare oral dissent read directly from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said former District Attorney Harry Connick created "a tinderbox in which Brady violations were nigh inevitable" and that John Thompson deserved damages for "the gross, deliberately indifferent and long-continuing violation of his fair trial rights."

Thompson, who at one point was only weeks away from being executed, successfully sued the district attorney's office in New Orleans, arguing Connick showed deliberate indifference by not providing adequate training for assistant district attorneys.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_supreme_court_exonerated_inmate

Good (:sarcasm:) to see the rule of 5-4 replacing the rule of law again.

Just so they know they can....

Fat Tony has said almost the same thing.

This is what the right concentrated on for 40 years and they have been paid back tenforld.

again, by literally thumbing their noses at everything that should be sacred in this once land of the free and home of the brave. :patriot:

of Clarence 'Pubic Hair on Coca-Cola can' Thomas. Still, this ruling is appalling and inhumane. At least Ginsburg showed some guts.

It seems HC Jr. is the direct opposite of his DA pa. One can only hope.