softheart
10-22-2004, 11:26 AM
I hope they can stop this execution, even the victims wife has come out and stated she doesn't want Dominique executed that she has forgiven him. The state needs to listen when a victim talks. They sure listen when they want them executed.
softie
22nd October
TEXAS----impending execution
Attorneys file lawsuit seeking to halt execution
Attorneys for a condemned Texas inmate have filed a federal lawsuit
seeking to halt his execution until they are allowed access to boxes of
evidence that recently were found by police.
Dominique Green, 30, is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1992 murder of
Andrew Lastrapes Jr. in Houston.
His attorneys filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Harris County
District Attorney's Office, the Houston Police Department and the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice. They allege Green's due process rights
are
being violated by the defendants' refusal to determine if there is any
evidence in the boxes that is relevant to his case.
Houston police in August found 280 boxes of mislabeled and improperly
stored evidence from 8,000 cases dating back more than a decade.
David Dow, a University of Houston law professor who is representing
Green, said he does not know if the boxes contain any relevant
evidence.
But he said it would be unlawful to execute Green before police have
time
to review the evidence.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court because the state courts have
not
yet ruled on the defense attorneys' request for a stay of execution or
access to the evidence, Dow said in Friday's edition of the Houston
Chronicle.
The Texas Attorney General's Office did not return a call seeking
comment
placed by the newspaper.
Green has acknowledged being at the slaying scene but has denied being
the
triggerman.
Green's case has attracted the attention of several death penalty
opponents. He received a visit on death row earlier this year from
Nobel
Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. He has asked Tutu to be a witness if
the execution is carried out next week.
Andrew Lastrapes was one of 10 people robbed during a 3-day crime spree
authorities said involved Green. 2 other men accused in the spree
received
lesser prison terms on a reduced charge for testifying against Green. A
fourth man was not charged.
The 3 who were charged and convicted were black. The one person not
charged was white.
Dow said he hopes something in the boxes of evidence might offer
information on the 2 plea bargains and explain why the other man never
was
charged.
(source: Associated Press)
softie
22nd October
TEXAS----impending execution
Attorneys file lawsuit seeking to halt execution
Attorneys for a condemned Texas inmate have filed a federal lawsuit
seeking to halt his execution until they are allowed access to boxes of
evidence that recently were found by police.
Dominique Green, 30, is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1992 murder of
Andrew Lastrapes Jr. in Houston.
His attorneys filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Harris County
District Attorney's Office, the Houston Police Department and the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice. They allege Green's due process rights
are
being violated by the defendants' refusal to determine if there is any
evidence in the boxes that is relevant to his case.
Houston police in August found 280 boxes of mislabeled and improperly
stored evidence from 8,000 cases dating back more than a decade.
David Dow, a University of Houston law professor who is representing
Green, said he does not know if the boxes contain any relevant
evidence.
But he said it would be unlawful to execute Green before police have
time
to review the evidence.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court because the state courts have
not
yet ruled on the defense attorneys' request for a stay of execution or
access to the evidence, Dow said in Friday's edition of the Houston
Chronicle.
The Texas Attorney General's Office did not return a call seeking
comment
placed by the newspaper.
Green has acknowledged being at the slaying scene but has denied being
the
triggerman.
Green's case has attracted the attention of several death penalty
opponents. He received a visit on death row earlier this year from
Nobel
Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. He has asked Tutu to be a witness if
the execution is carried out next week.
Andrew Lastrapes was one of 10 people robbed during a 3-day crime spree
authorities said involved Green. 2 other men accused in the spree
received
lesser prison terms on a reduced charge for testifying against Green. A
fourth man was not charged.
The 3 who were charged and convicted were black. The one person not
charged was white.
Dow said he hopes something in the boxes of evidence might offer
information on the 2 plea bargains and explain why the other man never
was
charged.
(source: Associated Press)