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Texas Moratorium Network (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that Former Texas Governor Mark White who was involved in the executions of 20 people: says it may be time for Texas to do away with the death penalty. The death penalty is no longer a deterrent to murder, and long stays for the condemned on death row shows justice is not swift, White said. More than anything, he said, he has grown concerned that the system is not...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
MICHAEL BLAIR is 36, but stands just 1.24 metres in his socks.
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Slaw (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
From the CCC (no, not that CCC, or that one, or that one…), a list of 2009 must-reads set in Canada… See the full list here Michael Blair, Depth of Field: A Granville Island Mystery Little does Tom McCall know how much he will regret accepting an assignment from the beautiful Anna Waverley to photograph [...]
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
As Roseville Police Chief Michael Blair sees it, parolees and probationers can sometimes be found in motel rooms.
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StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
The Death Penalty Information Center has just added Michael Blair to its list of men and women exonerated from death row. He is the 130th person sentenced to death to be exonerated since 1973. Death penalty exonerations have occurred in...
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Texas Moratorium Network (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
The Death Penalty Information Center has added Michael Blair as the 130th person on their list of people exonerated to leave death row. He remains in prison on other charges, but he has been found innocent of the murder charge that sent him to death row. The AP reported yesterday : DALLAS — A North Texas court dismissed the case against the man known as "Ashley's Killer" two months...
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Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Upon observing that Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins this week told the press he wanted to re-examine about 40 death penalty cases from Dallas County, Bill Baumbach at the Collin County Observer said the Charles Hood and Michael Blair cases show a similar review is needed in his county, offering this blog-cry in the wilderness about the damage recent incidents have caused to pubic confidence...
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Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
During the legislative process when it first passed, Texas' sex offender registration statute was dubbed "Ashley's Law," named after 7-year old Ashley Estell who was raped and murdered in Collin County in 1993. Authorities at the time decided a man named Michael Blair committed the crime, targeting him in part because he'd been convicted previously of a sex offense. As it turned out, though...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Police are asking for help in locating a man wanted in the shooting death Sunday of a 31-year-old Pontiac man. Lloyd Michael Blair, 28, faces homicide and weapons charges and is considered armed and dangerous, according to Pontiac police. Blair is 6 feet tall and weighs 240 pounds. He is wanted in connection with the slaying of Jason Michia Jones.
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Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
While we're on the subject of botched capital murder cases in Plano , I'd be remiss not to mention another recent exoneration from death row - Michael Blair, who was convicted of raping Ashley Estell in a case that spawned Texas' sex offender registration laws. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction last week based on an actual innocence claim. Reported the Dallas News ("...
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Michael Blair has been saved from a death sentence imposed for a murder he didn't commit. The ruling comes less than a month after prosecutors acknowledged that DNA evidence does not implicate Blair and shows that another man, now deceased, is a plausible suspect in the girl's death. That man, identified in court papers only as Suspect No. 4, learned where 7-year-old Ashley Estell was buried and bought...
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StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
This was definitely a case of waiting for the other shoe to drop, given the Collin County District Attorney's admission last month, noted here, that there was insufficient evidence to convict Michael Blair. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeal's brief...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
He was convicted in 1994 of strangling and molesting 7-year-old Ashley Estell in suburban Dallas. Ashley's death prompted state lawmakers to pass tough sexual-predator measures called "Ashley's Laws" requiring longer prison terms and public registration for sex offenders.
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comiXtreme (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
*Reviewer:* Adam Chapman adam.chapman@sympatico.ca *Quick Rating:* Very Good *Title:* Freefall Chapter 6 NIghtwing is visited by agents of Talia's newest partner... *Writer:* Peter J. Tomasi *Pencils:* Rags Morales *Inks:* Michael Blair *Letterer:* Sal Cipriano
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StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist's latest is, "A homicide case with a different kind of victim." As is so often the case with Bob Ray Sanders, it's a must-read. Michael Blair has admitted to doing terrible things in his life,...
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