http://newsrackblog.com/2009/08/19/the-horse-sings/ a citizen's journal by Thomas Nephew Fri, 18 May 2012 00:20:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://newsrackblog.com/2009/08/19/the-horse-sings/#comment-5832 Thomas Nephew Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:42:27 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/?p=2681#comment-5832 Incidentally, I'm writing from an Internet cafe in Maine -- if I don't respond to comments, it's because I'm not on the net as often for the next week or so. Incidentally, I’m writing from an Internet cafe in Maine — if I don’t respond to comments, it’s because I’m not on the net as often for the next week or so.

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2009/08/19/the-horse-sings/#comment-5831 Thomas Nephew Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:41:32 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/?p=2681#comment-5831 You make good points -- politically, it sounds like an uphill battle in Georgia, though there's also been interested and sympathetic coverage there. I also now wonder about the strength of one of my own points. Like the amateur I am, I may have been doing some wishful thinking about "innocent" vs. "not guilty." Though I think the evidence of false testimony still ought to be admissible under the Supreme Court's instructions, it might not suffice for the District Court to direct a new trial, given the remaining 1 (or 2) witnesses against Davis. You make good points — politically, it sounds like an uphill battle in Georgia, though there’s also been interested and sympathetic coverage there. I also now wonder about the strength of one of my own points. Like the amateur I am, I may have been doing some wishful thinking about “innocent” vs. “not guilty.” Though I think the evidence of false testimony still ought to be admissible under the Supreme Court’s instructions, it might not suffice for the District Court to direct a new trial, given the remaining 1 (or 2) witnesses against Davis.

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2009/08/19/the-horse-sings/#comment-5820 mick Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:35:38 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/?p=2681#comment-5820 I thought your post was pungent enough (as usual) to justify a reply, and it went on longer than a comment ought to be so once again an attempt to comment here turns instead into a new blog post. It's <a href="http://arran.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/the-troy-davis-conundrum/" rel="nofollow">here</a> if you want to read the whole thing but what it boils down to is that I don't disagree with you legally. Politically, however, it's a whole different ballgame and much less optimistic than a decision based on rational legal reasoning would be. Not to put too fine a point on it, Georgia's legal eagles aren't particularly rational, not about the Davis case at ant rate. I thought your post was pungent enough (as usual) to justify a reply, and it went on longer than a comment ought to be so once again an attempt to comment here turns instead into a new blog post. It’s here if you want to read the whole thing but what it boils down to is that I don’t disagree with you legally. Politically, however, it’s a whole different ballgame and much less optimistic than a decision based on rational legal reasoning would be. Not to put too fine a point on it, Georgia’s legal eagles aren’t particularly rational, not about the Davis case at ant rate.

]]> http://newsrackblog.com/2009/08/19/the-horse-sings/#comment-5819 The Troy Davis Conundrum « Mick Arran Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:26:57 +0000 http://newsrackblog.com/?p=2681#comment-5819 [...] 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment Thomas Nephew at newsrack thinks there may be more hope in the Supreme Court’s language than I do, and he has a point. [...] [...] 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment Thomas Nephew at newsrack thinks there may be more hope in the Supreme Court’s language than I do, and he has a point. [...]

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