[LarryRda]

LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,1730487.story

A bitterly divided Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a jury verdict won by a New Orleans man who spent 14 years on death row and came within weeks of execution because prosecutors had hidden a blood test and other evidence that would have proven his innocence.

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In 1999, when all his appeals had failed on his conviction for the murder of a hotel executive, Thompson was scheduled to be put to death. But a private investigator hired by his lawyer found a blood test in the police lab that showed the man wanted for a related carjacking had type B blood, while Thompson's was type O.

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With the new eyewitness reports and other evidence that pointed to another man as the killer, Thompson was quickly acquitted of all the charges in a second trial. He won $14 million in damages in a civil suit against the district attorney.

In rejecting the judgment, Justice Thomas described the case as a "single incident" in which mistakes were made. He said Thompson did not prove a pattern of similar violations that would justify holding the city's government liable for the wrongdoing. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined to form the majority.

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Hiding evidence is now a "mistake" rather than a crime?

Why am I not surprised that Mr. Thompson is an African-American?

[ZESINTERS]

I actually wrote an intro saying that if the victim had blonde hair and blue eyes, he'd probably already have his own parking spot at Fox News by now since he'd be guesting on every show every day for a week. And Breitbart would be funding a Jame O'Keefe hit piece edited to make it look like an African American, Latino or Muslim foisted this miscarriage of justice on some poor white Christian patriot.

But I didn't use it.