Deskovic speaks out against Sotomayor
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Great SCOTUS-related story from my colleague Jonathan Bandler in today’s Journal News.
Sonia Sotomayor, the federal appeals judge now nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, is getting criticized for upholding the conviction now-exonerated prisoner Jeffrey Deskovic.
Deskovic spent nearly 16 years in prison for a Peekskill murder he did not commit.
In April 2000, Sotomayor and a colleague on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Deskovic’s appeal because his lawyer submitted the paperwork four days late in 1997. Deskovic was finally exonerated in 2006 of the 1989 murder of 15-year-old Angela Correa, after DNA tests matched inmate Stephen Cunningham, who confessed to the crime.
“She put procedure over justice,” Deskovic said. ”We’re talking about a man’s life.”
Click here to read the full story on LoHud.com.
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