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Hidden Agenda Fuels Challenge to Pivotal Death Penalty Case
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2014
by David Protess
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2014, page 14
Anthony Porter, the exonerated death row prisoner whose jubilant release from prison in February 1999 was the catalyst for abolishing the death penalty in Illinois, is back in the news after living in relative obscurity for years. A lot has happened since reporters covered Porter’s first steps to freedom, but ...
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Attorneys,
Attorney Misconduct,
Wrongful Conviction,
Death Penalty,
Death Row,
TV/Movies.
Location:
Illinois.
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