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Michigan Republicans refuse to approve abortion initiative just because they don’t feel like it

2 years 10 months ago
The good people of Michigan recently gathered a huge number of signatures to put an abortion-rights measure on the November ballot. The Bureau of Elections examined the petitions and found that the vast majority of signatures were valid. So, the citizens having spoken, they duly recommended it be put on the ballot. But wait. The ...continue reading "Michigan Republicans refuse to approve abortion initiative just because they don’t feel like it"
Kevin Drum

St. Louis prosecutor asks court to free Lamar Johnson after nearly 30 years in prison

2 years 10 months ago

It’s been three years since Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner asked a St. Louis circuit judge to set aside the 1995 murder conviction of Lamar Johnson.  It was the first exoneration case Gardner’s conviction-integrity unit had brought forth — and a case that prosecutors statewide were watching closely. But Gardner hit a major roadblock when the […]

The post St. Louis prosecutor asks court to free Lamar Johnson after nearly 30 years in prison appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Rebecca Rivas

St. Louis prosecutor again seeks to clear convicted killer

2 years 10 months ago
Lamar Johnson was convicted in the 1994 killing of 25-year-old Marcus Boyd in an alleged drug dispute. Johnson’s claims of innocence and other new evidence in recent years convinced St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner that he was wrongfully convicted.
Associated Press