Ballistics Testing Proves Alabama Man On Death Row Is Innocent

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Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, said they never questioned Anthony Hinton’s innocence. Photo: AL.com

A man who has spent nearly 30 years on death row in an Alabama prison for two murders in 1985 will walk free Friday thanks, in part, to new ballistics testing, local media reported.

For three decades, Anthony Ray Hinton maintained his innocence in the shooting deaths of John Davidson and Thomas Vason. Davidson was shot twice in the head on Feb. 25, 1985 after being forced into the cooler at the restaurant where he worked. On July 2, 1985, Vason was killed in a similar incident in which he was forced into the freezer of a different restaurant and shot twice in the head. Hinton was convicted of both murders and sentenced to death for Davidson’s case. Continue reading “Ballistics Testing Proves Alabama Man On Death Row Is Innocent”

Iowa Newspaper Posts Black Burglary Suspects’ Mugshots, Posts White Burglary Suspects’ Yearbook Pictures

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Iowa burglary suspects Photo: Iowa Gazette

An Iowa newspaper is accused of pro-white bias after it handled the same alleged crime between two different sets of suspects in radically different ways.

Blogger Rafi D’Angelo at SoLetsTalkAboutIt.com pointed out that in reports filed on successive days, the The Gazette in Cedar Rapids printed mug shot photos of black burglary suspects and yearbook photos for white burglary suspects. Continue reading “Iowa Newspaper Posts Black Burglary Suspects’ Mugshots, Posts White Burglary Suspects’ Yearbook Pictures”

Donald Sterling Says Ex Sidepiece V. Stiviano Illegally Forged His Name To Cop $1.8 Million Dollar Home

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V. Stiviano sits with Ex-Clippers owner, Donald Sterling at a Clippers NBA game in 2011. Photo: Associated Press/Danny Moloshok

Recordings that cost Donald Sterling ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers could cost the woman he was dating the fortune in gifts he lavished on her.

Snippets of the conversations recorded by V. Stiviano were played Wednesday as a lawyer for Sterling’s wife explained why the former girlfriend should return more than $3.6 million the billionaire gave her in gifts that included a duplex, Ferrari, jewelry and designer clothes.

Stiviano manipulated and deceived the 80-year-old to give away community property that belongs to Shelly Sterling, his wife of nearly 60 years, attorney Pierce O’Donnell said in Los Angeles Superior Court. Continue reading “Donald Sterling Says Ex Sidepiece V. Stiviano Illegally Forged His Name To Cop $1.8 Million Dollar Home”