Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Supreme Court Blocks Execution of Texas Inmate


Overrules Texas arguments that prosecutors are permitted to lie and hide evidence.

Banks maintains he is innocent, and that he was framed by lying witnesses who were bought off by the state.

Banks was able to document how prosecutors kept quiet as key witnesses against Banks lied on the stand, and how the state hid those witnesses' links to police through round after round of appeals

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