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Convicted by False Forensic Evidence, Eddie Lee Howard, Jr. Exonerated From Mississippi Death Row After 26 Years

Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., convicted and sentenced to death based on the false forensic testimony of a since disgraced prosecution expert witness, has been exonerated after nearly 26 years on Mississippi’s death row. He is the 174th
former death-row prisoner exonerated in the U.S. since 1973 and the sixth in Mississippi.
The Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Howard’s conviction in August 2020, 26 years after he was first sentenced to death for the 1992 murder and alleged rape of an 84-year-old white woman. In an 8-1 decision, the court held that discredited bite-mark testimony, exculpatory DNA evidence, “and the paucity of other evidence linking Howard to the murder” entitled him to a new trial. Howard was freed pending retrial in December 2020 (see picture).
On January 8, 2021, the trial court granted a motion by Lowndes County District Attorney Scott Colom to dismiss all charges against Howard. “After reading the supreme court’s opinion, reading the trial transcripts from the two trials, reviewing the investigative files and case files of the case, I decided that we didn’t have even remotely close to sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Howard beyond a reasonable doubt,” Colom said.
Howard was represented by lawyers from the Mississippi Innocence Project and the national Innocence Project. The Mississippi Innocence Project’s founding director, Tucker Carrington, called Howard’s exoneration “a bittersweet victory.” “We’re thrilled that Mr. Howard will finally have his freedom and some semblance of justice,” Carrington said, “but he has lost nearly three decades of his life facing execution because the system failed. His case reminds us that there is still much work to be done to support Mr. Howard and others like him who have lost precious years of their lives to wrongful convictions.”
College campuses may be COVID-19 ‘super-spreaders,’ study finds
More than half of colleges across the country reported “spikes” in COVID-19 cases, suggesting students and others may be “super-spreaders,” according to a study published Wednesday.
How 8 Countries Have Tried to Keep Artists Afloat During Panemic

Governments around the world have tried to support the arts during the pandemic, some more generously than others.
An 11-Minute Body-Weight Workout With Proven Fitness Benefits

Five minutes of burpees, jump squats and other calisthenics, alternating with rest, improved aerobic endurance in out-of-shape men and women.
Ken Langone blasts Trump, Capitol rioters, vows to support Joe Biden
- Billionaire Ken Langone called the Capitol Hill riot a “disgrace” and urged Americans to rally behind President-elect Joe Biden.
- “I think the biggest mistake anybody is going to make is try and rationalize what happened last week, what the president did and what that crowd did,” Langone told CNBC on Wednesday.
- “I feel betrayed,” said Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot who has donated over the years to Republicans.
Source: Ken Langone blasts Trump, Capitol rioters, vows to support Joe Biden
U.S. Covid deaths reach record, researchers find 2 new variants in Ohio
“We’re in a very difficult situation, and it’s getting worse,” White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday.
Source: U.S. Covid deaths reach record, researchers find 2 new variants in Ohio
Open Thread | Impeachment, the Sequel😒😒 | 3CHICSPOLITICO
Make no mistake. It was sedition against the duly elected future government that had a coup attempt on January 6, 2021.
He is a traitor to this country. He needs to go to jail.
But, at the very least, he needs to be stripped of all the trappings that are given to former Presidents
No more Presidential pension.
No more Secret Service detail.
No more $ 1 million dollar travel budget.
The inability to run for office ever again.
Want all of those GONE.
PERIOD.
Bravo to Nancy Smash for letting the timing of this build just right. She gave Pence the time to do the right thing. Since he wouldn’t, the House has no choice. And, by moving so quickly, she will land it like a thud on Moscow Mitch’s door.
Source: Open Thread | Impeachment, the Sequel😒😒 | 3CHICSPOLITICO
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count – The New York Times
At least 4,406 new coronavirus deaths and 229,712 new cases were reported in the United States on Jan. 12. Over the past week, there has been an average of 249,961 cases per day, an increase of 37 percent from the average two weeks earlier. As of Wednesday morning, more than 22,903,400 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus according to a New York Times database.
Ayanna Pressley, AOC Call Out Republicans for Capitol Attack
“The second I realized our ‘safe room’ from the violent white supremacist mob included treasonous, white supremacist, anti masker Members of Congress who incited the mob in the first place, I exited,” Pressley said on Twitter.
The ease with which the coronavirus was apparently allowed to spread was only one of many seemingly deliberate dangers let loose inside the Capitol on that harrowing day. Pressley’s chief of staff, Sarah Groh, told the Boston Globe that during the incursion she discovered that the panic buttons in her office had been removed.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), has made probably the most explicit statement suggesting elected officials in Congress played a direct role in the violence that descended on the Capitol on January 6. In a Facebook Live to her constituents on Tuesday, Sherrill accused members of Congress of helping the rioters scope out the building ahead of their planned attack.
“Those members of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on Jan. 5 – a reconnaissance for the next day,” Sherrill said, NorthJersey.com reports. “I’m going to see they are held accountable, and if necessary, ensure that they don’t serve in Congress.”
Source: Ayanna Pressley, AOC Call Out Republicans for Capitol Attack
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