Kit O'ConnellEven though the @TexasObserver has tracked this for a while, today is the first time I've really dug into the Clinton Young case, personally. https://www.texasobserver.org/clinton-young-death-row-lawsuit-midland/
What a fucking travesty:
"Ralph Petty played multiple, conflicting roles in Clinton Young’s case: He was part of the legal team that prosecuted him for murder, and also later argued against Young’s subsequent writs and appeals. At the same time, he was paid to advise and draft opinions for the district judge who ruled on those same appeals."
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Alexa Gervasi, Young’s lawyer in the civil suit, has argued that was an impermissible and illegal abuse of power. “No one has more power than a prosecutor to take away a person’s liberty, and to allow what happened here to go without accountability, whatever that looks like, but without a court saying, ‘You violated Clint’s constitutional rights and that’s wrong,’ …. it’s self-perpetuating injustice,” Gervasi said. “The brazenness of all of Midland County—it’s an entire county of government officials signing off on this constitutional violation year after year after year for decades. It’s mind-boggling.”
👑 Kingsley 