Posted on 03/19/2009 11:12:48 AM PDT by KingofZion
Phillip Cherney has represented some notorious clients in his time, notably infamous Oakland drug czar Felix Mitchell Jr. in the mid '80s and Joel Radovcich, whom Fresno social climber Dana Ewell hired to murder his sister and wealthy parents in 1992. *** Cherney has the unenviable task of going before the California Supreme Court on Tuesday during oral arguments in San Francisco to plead for the ignominious death row inmate's life. Cherney knows he has his work cut out for him, noting in court papers that Davis, 54, is "one of the most reviled defendants" in recent California history, a man who was met with chants of "kill the beast" outside the courthouse during his 1996 San Jose trial.
"He's Quasimodo," Cherney said last week. "Nobody wants to get near him." But Cherney, who's 59 and says he's never had a client sentenced to death in five capital cases at trial, isn't daunted. In fact, he's rarin' to go. *** Getting the death penalty dismissed, he admitted, won't be easy.
"It's a death penalty case and he admitted to what he did," Cherney said. "No lawyer came to his aid [right away] and he's left in a position he's trying to fend for himself, and he's got a fool for a client. He ends up putting his own neckin the noose."
"But," he continued, "the evidence that he kidnapped [Klaas], broke into the house, committed a burglary is pretty solid."
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Why is this guy still alive?
Because justice is slow in CA.
No he's not. Quasimodo was innocent.
No he's not. Convicted criminals haven't got the same rights that you or I do.
Is Davis allowed to vote or bear arms while sitting on death row in Corcoran State Prison? I don't think so, so that would mean that he hasn't got the same rights as you or I, doesn't it?
He could bear arms if people would just go along with my plan: Arm all prisoners and put all the guards on the out side of the walls. Air drop them some food from time to time and as time goes on you'd have to do less and less of that.
But no court will touch zero's BC case !!!
It sure was an idiot statement. :-)
I cannot understand how egomaniacs like Cherney can feel a sense of accomplishment, a sense of justice, at jobbing the system to help a child-murdering piece of detritus like Davis.
I just cannot understand it.
Never have.
Never will.
This is a highly biased piece that doesn’t mention the sex crime elements of the case or about the agony of the victims. It gives very little details of the murder of this young girl and minimizes Davis’ behavior to that of a burglary. The people who write this stuff are scumbags too.
The chances of this guy ever being executed in California are slim and none.
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