| T-minus 17 Days and Counting... |
| Four days after the ruling, the Huntsville Times today did a short article on it, available on their website. They spent most of the article quoting from the one dissenting judge's 3 1/2 page dissent to the one-sentence ruling. I notice Mr. Bell always gets dwm's age right--and unlike Karen's, his keeps changing. |
| Tonight Channel 48 did a story on the ruling on the 10 o'clock news--very straightforward with video of dwm throughout. In spite of their time limitations, they said a lot more than the Huntsville Times...actually a clear description of the implications of the ruling. |
| And today, five days after the ruling, The Decatur Daily's Sheryl Marsh gives us the seventh-grade script version of the story. She describes the fifty-page petition from the State of Alabama and the Attorney General of the State of Alabama as "Don Valeska's petition." They gave three extended quotes of the one dissenting CCA judge, but there wasn't a word about why the other four judges needed the answers in the first place. And, of course, it was "prison officials" who removed dwm from death row...not Judge Glenn Thompson. So Sheryl Marsh has spoken. In her view of this, "Valeska accused Thompson" and Judge Cobb disagreed with Valeska. It's normal, according to her, for Thompson to make such an important ruling without justifying it properly under the law. And, of course, it's normal for a man with a death sentence to be sitting in Morgan County Jail, while the DISPUTED ruling is being decided by the Court of Criminal Appeals. I find it ironic that whenever Catherine Halbrooks has made an "accusation" against me, the police, or the prosecutors, it has gotten immediate front-page coverage and the stamp of approval from the Daily. When the State of Alabama files a 50-page petition responding to Halbrooks' accusations, the content of it is ignored. And when the Court of Criminal Appeals releases a one-sentence ruling, they can't quite grasp its significance. The Decatur Daily continues to show its bias and its ignorance in everything they do. But then, you should remember, they aren't really a newspaper. They're a for-profit anti-death penalty vigilante group. Maybe they'll give us a front-page story soon on how it is evidence of shocking sexual perversion for a school teacher to have a paddle. |
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| Funny how the State of Alabama v Daniel Wade Moore is described as the TIPTON CASE for publicity purposes... |