Abominations

Supreme Court Overturns Murder Conviction

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court threw out a death sentence and murder conviction Wednesday because a Louisiana prosecutor kept blacks off the jury in a trial he called his "O.J. Simpson case." By a 7-2 vote, the justices said state prosecutor Jim Williams improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted Allen Snyder of killing his estranged wife's companion. Snyder is black and the jurors were white. Snyder was convicted of first-degree murder in Jefferson Parish, just outside New Orleans. He was found guilty of repeatedly slashing his estranged wife, Mary Snyder, and a man, Harold Wilson, with a knife when he found them in a car outside her mother's home in August 1995. His wife survived, but Wilson died. Read more...

Posted by Editor at March 20, 2008 09:26 AM