12 20 256 https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/3b9de7a8663f966645224497cbab2b86.jpg f13cf575bca392ee33c12c35df8e37f3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 4 Text Text Any textual data included in the document [heading] State high court orders hearing for Spaziano [subheadin] In a 4-3 decision, Florida's Supreme Court denies a stay of execution for the inmate. The Associated Press [Start of first column] TALLAHASSEE-The Florida Supreme Court refused Friday to stay the execution of Joseph "Crazy Joe" Spaziano but ordered a lower court to hold a hearing within a week into his claims of innocence. In an unsigned opinion, the justices agreed a trial judge should consider the recent recantation of a key prosecution witness who said he lied during Spaziano's trial nearly 20 years ago. But the state's high court split 4-3 in its refusal to delay the execution. Spaziano, 49, is scheduled to die in Florida's electric chair Sept. 21 for the mutilation-murder of an 18-year old Orlando woman in August 1973. "We decline at this time to grant a stay of execution but allow the trial court an opportunity to address this issue," the majority said in a ruling that came just 26 hours after oral arguments. Chief Justice Stephen Grimes and Justices Ben Overton, Major Harding and Charles Wells supported the majority ruling. The other three justices said they agreed a lower court should review the recanted testimony but argued against setting a dead-line for the hearing. In a minority opinion supported by Justices Leander Shaw and See SPAZIANO on Page 2B [end of the first column] [Start of the second column] Section B SPAZIANO continued from page 1B Harry Lee Anstead, Justice Gerald Kogan said he believed Spaziano should be given an indefinite stay of execution. Spaziano is condemned for the murder of Laura Lynn Harberts, whose body was found in an Altamonte Springs dump. The key witness at Spaziano's trial was Anthony DiLisio, who recanted his testimony earlier this year, prompting Gov. Lawton Chiles to suspend Spaziano's fourth death warrant. However, after an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement into the recent comments by DiLisio, Chiles said he had no doubts about the case and signed a fifth death warrant last month. Richard Martell, who oversee the state lawyers who de-fend death sentences, said he was still studying the decision. Michael Mello, the Vermont law professor who represents Spaziano, did not respond to a request for reaction. Dexter Douglass, Chiles' general counsel, said a week should be sufficient for a lower court to hold a hearing. "There's plenty of time for this hearing," he said. "There's plenty of time for it to come back up to the Supreme Court." The trial court will decide if he recanted testimony is credible and substantial enough to probably change the verdict, according to the majority opinion. Kogan wrote for the minority that the majority was setting an unrealistic time frame to weigh the importance of DiLisio's recanted testimony. "Such a restrictionn is without precedent in our case law and tends to create an atmosphere of panic for resolution of an issue that requires calm and deliberate resolution," Kogan wrote. [end of the second column] [start of the third column] [Quote] Joseph Spaziano, 49, is scheduled to die in Florida's electric chair Sept. 21 for the mutiliation-murder of an 18-year-old Orlando woman in August 1973. [end Quote] "Indeed, this is an issue demanding the most careful of attention because its end result could be the state-sponsored taking of a man's life when his guilt has now been called into question." Kogan pointed out that a death sentence warrants ex-traordinary safeguards because of its finality. "I cannot see how this core policy is being served by an unseemly rush to execute a man despite a sworn affidavit by the state's chief witness that Mr. Spaziano was convicted on falsified evidence," Kogan wrote. DiLisio's recantation is just the latest troubling aspect of the Spaziano case, according to Kohan, who cited the use of hypnotically-enhanced testimony, something now banned, and the jury's recommendation for life. He called Spaziano's conviction a "textbook example how capital trials and postconviction reviews should not be conducted." Kogan said he believed the high court should grant an indefinite stay "if the governor does not stay or withdraw his warrant in light of our opinion today." Douglass said Chiles didn't plan on lifting the warrant, which is effective until noon Sept. 26. "He was satisfied that his duties required him to sign this death warrant," Douglass said. [end of article] Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Whitehurst, Ben Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource State high court orders hearing for Spaziano Subject The topic of the resource Capital Punishment Spaziano, Joe Florida Supreme Court Description An account of the resource The Florida Supreme Court refuses to stay the execution of Joseph Spaziano, but orders a lower court to hold hearing. In a 4-3 split, the minority opinion believed that Spaziano deserved an indefinite stay of execution. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 300 DPI 1 JPG Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tallahassee, FL Capital punishment. Dexter Douglass Florida Supreme Court hearing Joseph Spaziano Justice Gerald Kogan https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/f1200e9d4a4664fddfa45eddbc62cb90.jpg 4826dfd71c59872698ce3abd2c037242 https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/76ea6ff2d3755e9ec5437f91965c7689.jpg f2d7b8ad065390bb59f35655e3f18cfc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 4 Text Text Any textual data included in the document [heading] The supreme question [subheading] Hear for 'Crazy Joe' The State Supreme Court today weights a case that never should have reached death's brink. [start of the first column] Today the Florida Supreme Court will hear, possibly for the last time, the simple, compelling case against the execution of Joseph Spaziano. If the justices consider the full, dismal story of Spaziano's trail, conviction, sentencing, appeals, and impending execution. They will pull the brake, just in time, on an accelerating injustice. If they don't, a person whose guilt was never proved -- in any ordinary, logical sense of the word -- will die in Florida's electric chair just after sunrise two weeks from today. The state will have killed a man without any credible proof that he committed a capital crime. As reporter Lori Rozsa set out in detail in yesterday's Herald, the twisted story of "Crazy Joe" Spaziano is not the stuff of sentimental Hollywood movies. Head of the aptly named Outlaw Motorcycle Club, Spaziano's contributions to society were unwholesome at best. But in 1975 he was found guilty of the ultimate crime, a gruesome torture-rape-murder, based entirely on the say-so of ne wily teenage drug addict named Anthony DiLisio. Guesswork and improvisation Mr. DiLiso's testimony was contradictory from the start. Most of it was cooked up under hypnosis -- at the hands of a hypnotist who previously had helped manufacture at least two false murder convictions. The scarcity of corroborating information -- no eyewitnesses, no physical evidence, not even a known cause of death -- gave the whole proceeding a noxious odor of guesswork and improvisation. Mr. DiLisio now admits what many people already suspected: He made the whole thing up. He never saw any bodies, never heard Spaziano boast of the crime, never suspected Crazy Joe of murder. He did it, he says, to please his father (who had a grudge against Spaziano), to impress police, and to get himself out of a juvenile detention center. Yet even after weighing all this, Gov. [end of the first column] [start of the second column] Lawton Chiles last month came to the astonishing conclusion that none of it matters. On Aug. 24 he ordered the execution to proceed. His rationale lies buried in a secret Florida Department of Law Enforcement report whose partially revealed contents are flecked with self-contradictions, innuendo, and irrelevance. Worse, Spaziano's pro-bono lawyer -- like nearly all lawyers representing indigent clients on Death Row -- no longer has an investigator working for him. Government funding for such services was terminated on Aug. 24 -- the day the governor signed Spaziano's current death warrant. Press reports, the attorney says, are now his only was of scrutinizing the state's case. Three questions for the court Now Just 14 days from an irreversible conclusion to this matter, the Supreme Court has invited lawyers in for one last set of arguments. Here, then, is a final opportunity for the court to ask, in behalf of all Floridians, the elementary questions that haunt this case" Is there any reason to continue believing Tony DiLisio's weird, hypnotically induced 1975 testimony? Is there any reason to believe him now, when with evident anguish, he claims to have sent an innocent man to Death Row? But the court shouldn't stop there. It also needs to answer a third question, only broadly related to Spaziano's case: Can the State continue to administer a death penalty with integrity when most of those on Death Row will have no means for effective representation? Until it can answer that question, the court will be hard-pressed, morally at least, to let any execution proceed. Joe Spaziano's guilt or innocence is unknown. The Supreme Court needs to face that reality and stop the death train. Then it needs to ask: Who will prevent the next such error? Spaziano's worrisome ordeal dare not become the prologue to an era of death sentences without effective counsel. [end of the second column] [[ The image is of Joseph Spaziano speaking through a glass barrier. This image was taken by the Associated Press.]] PRISON INTERVIEW: Joseph Spaziano talks about his case at Florida State Prison. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Browning, Abbey Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The supreme question Subject The topic of the resource Capital punishment Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-09-07 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 2 JPGs 300 DPI Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Herald Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Herald. "The supreme question." 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Title A name given to the resource Coddling the Unabomber Subject The topic of the resource Kaczynski, Theodore John, 1942- Death row Description An account of the resource Vermont Law Professor Michael Mello advocates for the privacy of Ted Kaczynski, more commonly known as: The Unabomber. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Herald Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Herald. "Coddling the Unabomber." Hist 297, accessed April 12, 2022. https://umw.history.org. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997-12-11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 300 DPI Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Randolph, VT Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 5 Text Text Any textual data included in the document The Herald - Under the American justice system, even the most unpopular criminal suspect deserves an advocate besides his mother. Still, it’s hard to sympathize with the campaign of a Vermont Law School professor to coddle the Unabomber by forbidding the jury a chance to look at his explicit diaries. VLS professor Michael Mello has made a bit of a name for himself in death penalty cases, having guided about 70 death-row prisoners in Florida through last-minute maneuvering designed to save their lives. Now Mello has involved himself in the defense of Ted Kaczynski, who allegedly spread a swath of death and destruction-by-mail for decades, signing his messages with the “Unabomber” tag. An important part of the prosecution’s evidence is said to be a series of journals in which Kaczynski describes as many as 16 crimes in detail. The journals were confiscated from the cabin in which Kaczynski was living the life of a recluse when arrested. Prof. Mello does not think that the journals should be admitted in evidence. In support of that position, he offers that he, too, keeps a diary, which he considers “an extension of my own mind and my own soul and my own heart,” he told the Free Press. It sounds so nice and warm and fuzzy. But in the Unabomber’s case, the mind, soul, and heart were crazily warped and extremely dangerous to society. If he was careless enough to write it all up in journals, and leave them lying around, then so much the worse for him. Mello thinks that admitting diaries into evidence is akin to requiring Kaczinski to testify against himself, which is forbidden by the Fifth Amendment. But that important amendment was written so that the police could not torture “confessions” out of suspects. It wasn’t intended to tenderly protect the minds, souls and hearts of mass murderers. Sticking up for the Unabomber in this case is more likely to foster cynicism about defendants’ rights than it is to advance them. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Student Editor of the Digital Item Van Doren, Jamie Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Garner, Neonya Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coddling the Unabomber Subject The topic of the resource Death row Kaczynski, Theodore John Description An account of the resource Vermont Law Professor Michael Mello advocates for the privacy of Ted Kaczynski, more commonly known as: The Unabomber. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Herald Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Coddling the Unabomber." The Herald, December 11, 1997. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 300 DPI 1 JPG Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Randolph, VT Death Row Michael Mello Unabomber https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/956648f30f61603a0433c7940b4277c8.jpg e5b443e0c79f3e44b3c6ae326f3fc767 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 4 Text Text Any textual data included in the document [Header] Less 'panic for Spaziano [subheader] DEATH CLOCK ON HOLD Without the pressure of an impending execution, courts may find the truth. [Start of the first column] The Florida Supreme Court yesterday found itself all but forced into a decision that it should have made willingly last week. When the court on Friday ordered a hearing into new evidence in the murder case against Joseph “Crazy Joe” Spaziano, it allowed less than two weeks for all questions to be answered. After that, according to a death warrant that the court refused to stay, Spaziano was to be executed. The key witness in the case, Anthony DiLisio, recently said that he lied 20 years ago when he furnished the testimony that put Spaziano on Death Row. The justices properly told a lower court to examine Mr. DiLisio’s altered story and determine whether it is genuine. But by not staying the death warrant, the court in effect imposed an unrealistic and dangerous deadline. As Justice Gerald Kogan wrote in a dissenting opinion, it created an “atmosphere of panic … for an issue that requires calm and deliberate resolution.” The panic evidently sent some of Spaziano’s lawyers off the deep end. His principal attorney, Michael Mello – who had no clerical or investigative help and was showing signs of emotional exhaustion – fell to feuding with the state agency that normally represents Death Row appeals. The result was an exchange of lawyerly insults that would have been comical – if someone’s life weren’t at stake. To this the justices rightly said: Enough. They ordered Mr. Mello off the case, stayed the death warrant indefinitely, and set a new deadline of Nov. 15 for the evidentiary hearing. Now the inquiry can proceed at a pace that befits both the complexity of the case and the gravity of the death penalty. Spaziano was convicted in 1976, when he was 30, of murdering 19-year-old Laura Lynn Harberts. The case rested [start of the second column] almost entirely on Mr. DiLisio’s lurid tale of seeing mutilated bodies and hearing Spaziano boast of the crime. The testimony was dubious from the start, and now the witness has recanted it. Even Nov. 15 may prove an impractical deadline. But at least there is no death warrant rushing the proceedings. That’s how it should have been all along. The justices’ clear desire to know the truth of this matter – which is commendable – was nearly undermined by an undue haste in pursuing it. To Spaziano, whose life-or-death case nearly got lost in the legal pandemonium, the stay of execution came at a propitious moment. He turned 50 yesterday – two decades older than the day he came to Death Row, and now one step closer to justice. [End of the article] Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 DPI Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Hampton, Jim. "Less 'panic' for Spaziano." The Miami Herald, September 13, 1995. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Miami, FL Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-09-13 Description An account of the resource With Spaziano's execution on hold it could give the court time reinvestigate. 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Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 5 Text Text Any textual data included in the document Unabom Trial to Explore Sanity and Responsibility By William Glaberson SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 9 — A year and a half after a shaggy recluse stepped out of a Montana cabin and ended one of the most remarkable manhunts in American history, Theodore J. Kaczynski is to go on trial here this week on charges that he was the Unabomber who sent a chill through the country with a string of package bombings that began in 1978. In Federal Court here, Mr. Kaczynski’s fight to avoid conviction and the death penalty will force his lawyers to contend with an extraordinary trove of prosecution evidence found in his cabin, including a carbon copy of the anti-technology manifesto the Unabomber had sent to news organizations, an unexploded bomb and detailed entries from his journals like “I mailed that bomb.” And the case is likely to present the riveting picture of Mr. Kaczynski’s younger brother, David, taking the stand to try to save the life of the very sibling he turned into the authorities after reading the manifesto. It was David Kaczynski who went to the F.B.I. in 1996 and told them he thought his brother could be the man they were looking for. But in recent weeks, it has become clear that a central theme, both inside and outside the courtroom, will be how to assess individual responsibility for acts that seem at once meticulously planned, and at the same time, fiendishly arbitrary. The campaign that left more than two dozen people wounded and three dead was so irrational it could only have been the product of madness, some people including Mr. Kaczynski’s lawyers say. Arguing that Mr. Kaczynski’s mental deterioration rendered him incapable of forming the criminal intent necessary to be held responsible under the law, they say the death penalty would compound the irrationality. But others, including the Yale University computer-science professor David J. Gelernter, who may be the Unabomber’s best known target, have begun to argue in public that the Unabomber is the personification of unrepentant evil and that only a weak nation would shrink from imposing the ultimate penalty. Mr. Kaczynski’s lawyers have signaled that they may argue that Continued on page A26 [image- cabin] Theodore J. Kaczynski, whose trial will begin in Sacramento, Calif., this week with charges involving serial bombings, lived in a small cabin in Montana for years without electricity or plumbing. It was there, Federal authorities, that say he made many of the package bombs that wounded more than two dozen people and killed three in the attacks aimed at stopping technology. In June, Mr. Kaczynski was led out of a court in Helena, Mont., before he was transferred to California. Continued From Page A1 he was a paranoid schizophrenic. The prosecutors have asked the judge to bar that effort because Mr. Kaczynski refused last month to be examined by Government psychiatrists. The debate will pit two images against each other. One is that of the mysterious figure with the hood and sunglasses in the much-circulated law-enforcement sketch of the Unabomber, so named by investigators because his first targets were at Universities and airlines. With the help of elliptical letters and demands the bomber made to The Washington Post and The New York Times to publish his 35,000 word anti-technology tract, that hooded figure with the aviator glasses seemed to be making a bid for folk-hero status. Legal experts say that will be the image the prosecution will try to project to coax jurors into fury at a man they will portray as a manipulative killer. The other image is the one the defense is likely to recall the jurors: the loner with tangled hair who emerged from the tiny cabin in the Rockies and who fertilized his vegetable garden with his own excrement. “The prosecution is going to say, ‘Yeah, this guy is eccentric but so are all terrorists and mass murderers,’ “ said James B. Jacobs, a criminal law expert at New York University School of Law. “The defense is going to say: ‘This is a guy who lived in the woods. For years! He’s completely antisocial. He’s [a] paranoid schizophrenic.’ ” In the battle of images, some criminal defense lawyers say, Mr. Kaczynski may be a victim of his own success. If he was the Unabomber, they say, he skillfully played to a segment of the populace that was suspicious of technology. The attention in the news media made him seem an enigmatic genius who meticulously crafted parts of his bombs by hand. In 1995, People magazine named him one of the most intriguing people of the year. “He was presented as a pop hero, a rebel who was protesting the encroaching oppression of technology and he had a hand in creating that image. It’s hard to portray a pop hero as insane,” said Robert Precht, a defense lawyer who represented the lead defendant in the World Trade Center bombing case. In the case before Judge Garland Burrell Jr. of Federal District Court here, Mr. Kaczynski, 55, faces charges as a result of the deaths of two Sacramento men, Hugh C. Scrutton, who ran a computer store, in 1985 and, Gilbert B. Murray, the president of the California Forestry Association, in 1995. In addition, he is accused of mailing the two bombs from Sacramento that wounded Dr. Gelernter at Yale in New Haven in 1993 and Charles J. Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California at San Francisco, in 1993. Because the new Federal death penalty was not in force at the time of Mr. Scrutton’s death, Mr. Kaczynski will face the death penalty only if he is convicted in the 1995 killing of Mr. Murray. On Friday, Judge Burrell rejected a defense request to bar the possibility of the death penalty. After the current trial, Mr. Kaczynski will face the death penalty again when he is to be tried in Federal Court in New Jersey for a 1994 bombing that killed Thomas J. Mosser. Mr. Mosser was an advertising executive who was killed at his North Caldwell, N.J., home when he opened a package. [Image] After jury selection, which is expected to take as long as a month, the trial will begin with a so-called guilt phase in which the prosecutors will be required to prove that Mr. Kaczynski not only committed each of the bomb attacks but also intended to injure his victims. If Mr. Kaczynski is found guilty, a second phase of the trial would be conducted to determine whether he would be sentenced to death. Lawyers who have been following the case say they sense that there has been a behind-the-scenes struggle between Mr. Kaczynski and his lawyers over the question of how he should be portrayed. They believe that Mr. Kaczynski has been resisting the lawyers’ efforts to describe his actions as the product of mental illness. These lawyers say that the two experienced Federal public defenders in the case would surely have advised Mr. Kaczynski that if they made a claim of diminished-capacity, the prosecutors would demand an examination by their own psychiatric experts. When prosecutors made that demand and Mr. Kaczynski refused, lawyers say, it was predictable that the prosecutors would try to bar the defense from introducing any psychiatric evidence and they did. Judge Burrell has yet to rule on the prosecution motion to preclude that evidence. In this way, Mr. Kaczynski may have jeopardized his psychiatric defense, and that, the lawyers who have been watching the case say, may have been what he hoped. Mr. Kaczynski, they say, appears unwilling to go along with suggestions that his best chance to avoid the death penalty would be [to] portray him as mentally ill. Mr. Kaczynski is represented by Quin Denvir, the chief Federal defender here, who is known as a consistent opponent of the death penalty, and Judy Clarke, the chief Federal defender in Spokane, Wash., who was one of the lawyers for Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons. Ms. Clarke helped to convince the jury that Mrs. Smith should not be put to death. The chief prosecutor in the case, Robert J. Cleary, has been pushing strongly for the death penalty. Mr. Cleary, 42, the son of a retired New York City police officer, is the second in command of the Federal prosecutor’s office in Newark. He was appointed to lead the Unabom case by Attorney General Janet Reno. At Yale, Dr. Galarnter said Mr. Kaczynski’s trial was important partly because of the stark debate it presents over personal responsibility. He stands squarely with the prosecutors who are expected to call him to the stand. “A lot of people in this country have a predisposition to believe that if you kill people with bombs, you must be insane,” said Dr. Gelernter, who was injured in one eye, lost part of his right hand and hearing in one ear. “We know that’s not true. We know sane men are capable of arbitrary bestiality.” Some legal experts say that to draw their portrait of a troubled Theodore John Kaczynski, the defense lawyers may not fight too strenuously against the avalanche of evidence expected from the prosecution. “Both sides have the same facts,” said Michael Mello, a professor at Vermont Law School who recently wrote a law review article on the Kaczynski case. “But they are going to be asking the jurors to draw very different logical inferences from those same facts.” The defense lawyers may simply allow the prosecutors to tell their story to the jurors. It will be a story of a Harvard prodigy who grew up to live alone in a mountain cabin with no water or electricity and who is charged with assembling bombs that he would ship off to people he had never met. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Student Editor of the Digital Item Van Doren, Jamie Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Salp, Evan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Unabom Trial to Explore Sanity and Responsibility Subject The topic of the resource Unabomber Trial Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The New York Times Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The New York Times. "Unabom Trial to Explore Sanity and Responsibility ." New York Times, November 10, 1997. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997-11-10 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 3 JPGs 300 DPI Description An account of the resource Discussion of the proposed prosecution and defence of Ted Kaczinski. Language A language of the resource English https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/c5ba5ad7f0182243b86a10af5b11feac.jpg 030a3c0961a5b85fa105030d5e3658f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 4 Text Text Any textual data included in the document [heading] Reveal report on Spaziano [start of the first column] Gov. Lawton Chiles should reveal the substance of a special state investigation of the evidence used to convict Death Row resident Joseph Spaziano. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement compiled that report at the request of Mr. Chiles as he was considering a clemency request. Mr. Spaziano's attorney, Michael Mello, says his client should not have been convicted of murder in the death 22 years ago of Laura Lynn Harberts. Mr. Chiles has no authority to overturn Mr. Spaziano's conviction. That is the province of the court system – which, in several appeals at both the state and federal levels, has found no reason to do so. If Mr. Chiles were to be convinced that Mr. Spaziano was wrongly convicted, though, he could reduce – or even throw out – the sentence. Instead, after reviewing the FDLE report, Mr. Chiles was convinced that Mr. Spaziano's conviction was just. In fact, what new evidence was found supported the jury's verdict in that heinous crime. Understandably, Mr. Mello would like to [end of the first column] [start of the second column] see that FDLE report. It's true that it was Mr. Mello's choice to seek redress through the governor, and it's true – as Mr. Mello surely must have known – that the clemency procedure affords the governor the right to keep that information private. Mr. Chiles' concern is for the safety of those who spoke with the FDLE, several of whom did so on the condition that they not be identified. Mr Spaziano, after all, was a member of a motorcycle gang notorious for violent retribution. Still, a man's life is at stake. If his life is to be taken in the name of the public, the public has a right to know on the strength of what information that is being done. The best solution would be for Mr. Chiles to release a summary of the FDLE's findings that would not identify – nor potentially put into jeopardy – the source of the information but would make clear why he believes that there is no reason to grant clemency to Mr. Spaziano. This, after all, isn't a trial. Mr. Spaziano had his trial – 20 years ago. [end of the second column] [end of article] Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Snead, Andrew Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reveal report on Spaziano Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-09-05 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 DPI Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Orlando, FL Subject The topic of the resource Capital punishment Chiles, Lawton, 1930-1998 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Orlando Sentinel Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Orlando (FL) Sentinel. "Reveal Report on Spaziano." September 5, 1995. Description An account of the resource Governor Lawton Chiles should release a summary of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement report that he used to determine that Spaziano's murder conviction was just. Michael A. Mello https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/ddd8b810aa9b1c0257a185eb73c81ea3.jpg 437c0f4bcd01a189dfc1106144026903 https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/de7ef593840f8d9a08a767c458ee2efd.jpg 0e1a266dae62230697bb9923702dddd7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 2, 1983-1994 Text Text Any textual data included in the document BOYDTON, Va. – Small wonder that Joseph M. Giarrantano was feeling depressed. He had just spent another sleepless night on death row composing the arguments that he hoped would keep him from the electric chair. With his last appeal coming up before the U.S. Supreme Court, Giarratano, 33, a convicted murderer and legal scholar whose case has become and international causee celebre, is increasingly haunted by his impending execution. “It’s not so much that I’m scared to die,” Giarratano said as he sat handcuffed in a visiting cell at the Mecklenburg Correctional Center last week. “But the whole death ritual – of being moved into this cell, strapped into a chair, and fried to death – that’s frightening, and I don’t know how I’m going to deal with that.” Two factors make Giarratano’s case unusual. The first is the former junkie’s transformation into a respected jailhouse lawyer who has won important prisoners’ rights cases and serves as a consultant to lawyers in capital cases nationwide. The second is the discovery of evidence that casts doubt on Giarratano’s guilt in the murder of a 44-year-old Norfolk woman and the rape and murder of her 15-year-old daughter – evidence the courts have declined to consider because of procedural technicalities. The result, Giarratano’s supporters fear, is that a possibly innocent man – whose rehabilitation is virtually unquestioned – may be put to death. “It would be an extraordinary tragedy, really just an incredible loss – personally to me, but really to the legal community and to Virginia,” said Michael A. Mello, an assistant professor at Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vt. “Joe is a person who has made one of the most remarkable metamorphoses of any person I have ever known,” said Richard H. Burr 3d of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, one of Giarratano’s lawyers. “I don’t know of another case that has gone to the Supreme Court that presents more serious questions about innocence.” But Bert L. Rohrer, a spokesperson for Virginia Attorney General Mary Sue Terry, who has successfully opposed Giarratano’s bid for a new trial, said last week that rehabilitation was “really not an issue to us.” “We have taken the position… that there is no new evidence,” only “old evidence in new wrapping,” he said. Giarratano, a sometime scallopboat worker who says he spent years in a cocaine- and Dilaudad-inducaed haze, fled to Florida and turned himself in to Jacksonville police in 1979. He said he had found Barbara Kline, known as Toni, and her daughter, Michelle, dead in the apartment that he shared with them and believed he had committed the murders. Giarratano gave police five conflicting confessions and turned down an offer of a life sentence in return for a guilty plea because he felt he deserved to be executed. Despite a suicide attempt, he was judged competent to stand trial, convicted and sentenced to death after a morning long, non-jury trial. Giarratano, who was given the powerful tranquilizer Thorazine by prison authorities, said he had little will to live and kept dropping his appeals. In 1983, tormented by voices in his head, he let himself come within 24 hours of being electrocuted. “I had just given up completely. [I believed] I was rotten, evil, sick individual, and I deserved to die,” he said. “What I didn’t count on happening was Marie Deans.” Deans, now executive director of Virginia Coalition on Jails and Prisons, which provides legal assistance to indigent inmates, told Giarratano that his life “was worth living, that I was worth something,” he said. “That’s something I had never heard from anybody.” As Deans gained his trust, he revealed horrific details of his childhood in Jacksonville. “Both myself and my sister were sexually abused by my stepfather. Both of us were physically abused by my mother,” Giarratano said last week. “And the abuse was rough – she would use things like cattle prods. I got the hell beat out of me with a steel-handled broom for buying the wrong brand of potato chips.” By age 11, he had begun a descent into alcohol and drug addition. He quit school in the eight or ninth grade. At 15, after slashing his wrists and attempting a drug overdose, her was hospitalized, he said. At 17, to punish him for escaping from reform school, Giarratano was sent to prison, where he had a brief encounter – with his natural father, also a junkie. His father offered to help him obtain more drugs, he said. By 21, he was in Virginia, living with the Klines. One day, he awoke in the apartment and went to the bathroom. “And that’s when I saw them – Toni laying in the bathroom. There was just blood splattered everywhere,” he said. Giarratano says he has never had any memory of killing the Klines. Nor did he have a motive. But, believing he must have been the perpetrator, he made up the confessions and managed to convince the authorities of his guilt, he said. With conseling and encouragement from Deans, Giarratano has come into his own as a person and as a legal scholar. In Giarratano v. Bass, he obtained for prisoners the right to confidential communications with their lawyers and paralegals. In Murray v. Giarratano, he won a decision guaranteeing inmates the right to counsel after their first round of appeals. The ruling was struck down last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, 5-4. But it was not until last year that Giarratano became convinced of his innocence in the Kline murders. Deans, with the backing of a German art gallery owner who had heard of the case, had hired an investigator to explore Giarratano’s past. The investigator returned with doubts about his guilt. Now, Giarratano and his attorneys argue that physical evidence on the scene – bloody footprints, unidentified pubic hairs, fingerprints – points away from Giarratano. They say Michelle Kline was strangled by a right-handed person, while Giarratano is left-handed. At the very least, they argue, Giarratano was incompetent to stant trial. And they say they have unearthed a more likely suspect – a boyfriend of Barbara Kline’s with a felony record that includes sexual violence against women. So far, however, the authorities have declined to pursue the matter. “I didn’t want to hear anything about innocence,” said Giarratano. “Now, it seems like all of this has been a lie….It’s all premised on my accepting responsibility for something I didn’t do.” Still, Giarratano is facing death – as early as June, he says, unless the Supreme Court orders a new trial or Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, a one-time death penalty opponent, commutes his sentence. Meanwhile, Amnesty International has taken up his case. And ever since 1986 British television documentary featuring him, Giarratano has received increasing press attention – first in Europe, then in the U.S. media, and, finally in Virginia, where editorialists across the state are calling for a new trial. Lawrence C. Lawless, who prosecuted Giarratano, remains convinced of his guilt. “If they needed a volunteer to push the button, I’d do it off-duty on the weekend,” he has told Richmond Times-Dispatch. With his final appeal brief due April 24, Giarratano said he was almost afraid the think of a life outside of prison, which might include law school and a career as public-interest lawyer. “I was doing better,” he said. “Now, I’m really feeling the pressure.” Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Mocarski, Casey Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource He's a jailhouse lawyer-and a condemned man Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Language A language of the resource English Subject The topic of the resource Death row Joseph Giarratano Jailhouse lawyer Description An account of the resource With new evidence, a man on death row may be released. He was convicted of the murder and rape of two women, confessed, and has withdrawn his confession to pursue his innocence. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Philadelphia Inquirer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990-04-08 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. 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Title A name given to the resource "Mistake Nearly Cost A Life" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neely Tucker Description An account of the resource Joseph Green Brown alias "Shabaka," a wrongly convicted rapist and murder on death row for 14 years, released in 1987, now struggles to enjoy his freedom while he lives in a society that he believes is a failed justice system that has prejudice towards minorities. Lawyer Michael A. Mello chimes in on the types of struggles Shabaka faces as a free man and praises his advocacy of the repeal of the death penalty throughout the country. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Florida Today Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available History 298. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Mistake Nearly Cost A Life" Subject The topic of the resource Criminal defense lawyers Description An account of the resource Joseph Green Brown alias "Shabaka," a wrongly convicted rapist and murder on death row for 14 years, released in 1987, now struggles to enjoy his freedom while he lives in a society that he believes is a failed justice system that has prejudice towards minorities. Lawyer Michael A. Mello chimes in on the types of struggles Shabaka faces as a free man and praises his advocacy of the repeal of the death penalty throughout the country. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Neely Tucker Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Florida Today Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available History 298. 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Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 2, 1983-1994 Text Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Jah, Ethan Text Any textual data included in the document [image - Joseph Green Brown] [image caption - Death row victor: Joseph Green Brown, also known as Shabaka, spent 13 years on Florida's death row for a crime he did not commit.] He walks the streets of the nation’s capital, white jacket loosely slung across his muscular shoulders, the image of a free man in a free country. Joseph Green Brown – call him by his Swahili name, Shabaka – bypasses the stately townhouses, the men and women in their greatcoats bustling against the winter chill. He doesn’t talk much. He watches a lot. On the street, he’s content to move unnoticed in the crowd. He jogs across the street and ducks into a café-bar for lunch. No one gives him a second glance. That’s fine. People tend to feel nervous when they know Shabaka’s past. For 13 years, thate state of Florida called this soft-spoken, philosophical man a rapist, robber and a killer. Prosecutors wouldn’t have wanted him ordering a hot sandwich and a beer in this nice, upscale luncheonette. Prosecutors wanted him dead. The governor signed his death warrant. Prison guards measured him for a funeral suit. Shabaka had 15 hours to live when an appeal finally netted a stay. Those execution attempts ended just nine months ago when Florida, in a startling announcement, said it had the wrong man. The state’s key witness recanted his testimony and the case against Shabaka collapsed. His conviction was overturned. At first, it was hard for him to step back into the spotlight and speak out against a death penalty system he believes in blatantly racist, immoral and illegal. But in a growing number of public appearances – he’s set to speak at colleges in Alabama, New York, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, and possibly at Harvard – his language is growing stronger, his town more forceful. “In slavery days, I’m what the old field hands would call an ‘indignant nigger,’” he said. “That was a slave they were going to have to beat today, tonight, tomorrow and the next week to keep in line. I’m not going to be quiet. I want to be the person law enforcement agencies call an embarrassment.” Combined with a study in the Stanford Law Review documenting more than 350 oher unjust death sentences this century – 23 resulting in executions – Shabaka hopes to shake up the system that convicted him and dozens of other innocent, impoverished minorities. He was tagged with the July 7, 1973 rape, robbery and murder of a Tampa children’s store owner. Police were still looking for clues in that crime when, miles away and hours [end page] [start page] later, two men broke into a local hotel room. They robbed a couple of jewelry and a few hundred dollars. At gunpoint, the woman was forced to disrobe. One of her assailants started to touch her, suddenly stopped, turned and f;ed/ Joseph “Shabaka” Green Brown, a former Black Panther member, flagged down a police car the next day. He had committed the Holiday Inn robbery, he said. Overcome with guilt, he wanted to turn himself in. It was his first criminal offense. But Brown’s accomplice in the hotel robbery, Ronald Floyd, was not at all pleased with being accused of the crime. Three and a half months later, in a plea bargain deal, he told police Brown was the killer in the earlier robbery. A judge and jury agreed, and they ordered brown electrocuted at the state penitentiary in Starke. From 1974 to March 5, 1987, prosecutors tried. When Floyd finally recanted, Brown was immediately set free. But because he wasn’t in a state facility, he didn’t qualify for rehabilitation programs, the state-granted suit and $100. Instead, he was ushered to the jail-front sidewalk eight minutes after the conviction was overturned. He had a cardboard box of legal papers under his arm and three quarters in his pocket. He was 23 when he flagged down the Tampa police officer. He was now a 37-year-old man. He had sout out Watergate, the “me” generation, disco, Iranian hostages, yuppies and Ronald Reagan. He had no friends, no family in the state, no idea of where the nearest phone booth was or the foggiest idea of how he was going to eat that night. Freedom has not proven to be an easy walk. As he braces himself for his first winter outside prison, he sits at the restaurant, saying he feels more like an exile in a strange and hostile land rather than the free man he embodies when he walks the streets about which he once only dreamed. “I feel lost a lot, kind of disconnected,” he said softly. “One day I was lying in bed, and it really hit me. I thought about them all on the row. … The closest friend I have is still on death row in Florida. And here I am, able to walk around outside and hear the birds, feel the warmth of the sun, watch people walking by on the street, hold a woman or pick up a little baby. I just can’t forget the guys I left behind. Nobody owns Shabaka. But I can’t feel free as long as they’re killing people.” But when he’s not making speeches, life is still a troubling thing for Shabaka. The talks, sporadic and spread out, are the only form of income he can muster. Though he said he’s applied at more than 50 positions – from rolling pizza dough to construction – no offers have been made. It’s barely enough to pay the rent for his corner room in another family’s house. His conscience stalks him. He remembers the woman in the motel room, the terror in her eye. The talks are personal therapy, but he hopes to work with poor teen-agers, giving them a reason to believe. “We’re always drilling it into kids to get and education, to get ahead,” he said. “But nobody tells that to the poor little child down on the wrong side of the block. Let’s say that kid grows up, commits a robbery, rape or worst of all, murder. And people sit back so pious and ask ‘Why? Why such a senseless, stupid act?’ My response is ‘Why not?’ Why should that child value your life or property, when no one ever treated them with any respect, or taught them they were an individual with a life worth living?” Michael Mello, a Washington lawyer who has helped with Shabaka’s readjustment, doesn’t think he’ll ever be the free man who fits into the crowd. “I’m not sure he’ll ever feel comfortable living his own life,” Mello said. “He knows he was just loucky to get out. He has a very strong sense of mission to help those guys back on death row. When hhe tells you he’s not going to let people forget them, he’s not kidding. You’re going to hear a lot from him. He’s like that line in a Joan Baez song, ‘Saviors are a nuisance to live with at home.’ I think that’s going to be America’s feeling for Shabaka.” Student Editor of the Digital Item Dickinson, Terra Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mistake Nearly Cost A Life Subject The topic of the resource Criminal defense lawyers Description An account of the resource Joseph Green Brown alias "Shabaka," a wrongly convicted rapist and murder on death row for 14 years, released in 1987, now struggles to enjoy his freedom while he lives in a society that he believes is a failed justice system that has prejudice towards minorities. Lawyer Michael A. Mello chimes in on the types of struggles Shabaka faces as a free man and praises his advocacy of the repeal of the death penalty throughout the country. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tucker, Neely Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Florida Today Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 2 JPGs 300 DPI Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Washington D.C. https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/c977f03a78fa88ce28788f6b4996f4c0.jpg 631b8e7f3ca5fa37e76a7c755776de61 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 2, 1983-1994 Text Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Vol. No./Issue No. Volume and issue number for the newspaper (if available) Florida Flambeau Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Goode, Claire Text Any textual data included in the document The attorney for two death row inmates just granted last-minute stays of execution says Florida may not be allowed to execute any more prisoners until the U.S. Supreme Court decides on a crucial legal issue now under consideration. Michael Mello, who defended both Paul Beasley Johnson and Edward Dean Kennedy for the state’s capital collateral appeals office, said most executions will be on hold until the court rules on the fairness of allowing prosecutors to dismiss jurors who express strong opposition to capital punishment. Several jurors were dismissed on those grounds in the trials of Johnson and Kennedy. Both Johnson and Kennedy had been scheduled for execution early today. Kennedy received a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, and Johnson received a stay from Florida’s highest court early Monday. In both cases, Mello based his appeal for stays on the fairness of the challenge law. “I’m absolutely ecstatic. I don’t see how they can kill anybody now, with these issues,” Mellow said. “What they’ve been doing nationally is granting stays in every case where this applies,” he said. “It’s evident to me the U.S. Supreme Court has decided no one is going to die until they settle this issue.” The case in question-Lockhart v. McCree- was argued before the court on Jan. 13, Mello said. The court does not have a set deadline on reaching a decision, he said, but is expected to rule before its current term ends on June 30. Johnson was sentenced to death for the January 1981 murders of William Evans, Darrell Ray Beasley and Deputy Sheriff Theron Burnham in Polk County. Court records state Johnson shot Evans twice and robbed him after the taxi driver picked him up outside a Winter Haven theater late at night on Jan. 8. Student Editor of the Digital Item Dickinson, Terra Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Future executions hinge on Supreme Court case Subject The topic of the resource Mello, Michael Death row Supreme Court decisions--United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1986-02-04 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 DPI Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Florida Description An account of the resource This newspaper clipping is an article detailing how the undecided nature of the Supreme Court case, Lockhart v. McCree, has allowed Mello to successfully appeal for stays of execution for two of his clients on death row. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Florida Flambeau Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United Press International Death Row Edward Dean Kennedy Florida Death Row Lockhart v. McCree Michael A. Mello Paul Beasley Johnson Supreme Court https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/d0cebe52e1aa7c657c1440831af060f7.jpg 63075d7e9c466603b4da75e4d5ff3f42 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 2, 1983-1994 Text Text Any textual data included in the document Miguel Richardson bears little resemblance to the securities brokers and corporate raiders that Steven Rosenfeld, a partner in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has always represented. Mr. Richardson, convicted of the murders of two Holiday Inn security guars in San Antonio, has been on death row in Texas since 1982. "From the point of view of a typical corporate attorney this is an entirely different clientele," Mr. Rosenfeld said. "This sort of population is not the most popular in society and there is certain reservation about doing this sort of work in the minds of a lot of people. But it's hard to pick a group of people who needs help more but have less access to it." To an uncommon extent, many of the nation's most prestigious corporate law firms are volunteering for duty in a difficult area of criminal: capital punishment. Some, like Paul, Weiss, have represented death row inmates before but are doing so more often. Many others, especially in the South and West are taking on such cases for the first time. Represented All the Way The movement is a response to an acute shortage of criminal lawyers for capital appeals. While the defendants have a constitutional right to legal representation at trial and through at least one appeal, there is no constitutional right to a lawyer through the long process of appealing a death sentence all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Many states have mechanisms to provide representation for death row appeals, but there are not enough defense lawyers to go around, according to prosecutors, prisoner rights organizations and many judges. The entry of leading, corporate law firms into death row appeals has brought complaints from some prosecutors who are annoyed by the delays and long legal briefs that the civil litigators have brought to this criminal matter. But the influx of sharp new minds is also welcomed in the Have taken capital cases since last October. While most of the participating corporate lawyers have little or no experience in the field, experts say training and resources and often the sheer love of challenge, more than compensates. Yale Kamisar, a leading constitutional scholar at the University of Michigan law school, said inexperience in death penalty appeals could even be an advantage in opening the way to novel approaches. "People in private law firms coming insights experienced criminal lawyers would not," Professor Kamisar said. "A civil lawyer who takes a capital case is more likely to get fired up and think of every conceivable argument he can make." Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Big firms offer death row defense Subject The topic of the resource Death Row Defense Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York Times Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 8, 1988 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 2 JPG Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Michigan Description An account of the resource Big law firms offer lawyers to defend people on death row https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/75eee5dbd0ee8b0ed3b7f0d8ade55f69.jpg da90aab2cdd72dd137294f1c93428526 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 3, 1995 Text Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Welch, Miranda Text Any textual data included in the document TALLAHASSEE— A state lawyer says he can’t find anything wrong with the testimony of a man that proved vital in convicting a former motorcycle outlaw who tortured and murdered an 18-year-old woman 22 years ago. Gov. Lawton Chiles on Thursday stayed the execution of Joseph Spaziano, who was scheduled to die June 27, after media re-ports cast doubts on Tony Dilisio’s testimony. Dilisio was quoted as saying his testimony is false and had been manipulated by investigators. But Chiles’ chief legal advisors, Dexter Douglass, told The Orlando Sentinel that Dilisio hasn’t recanted his testimony and there’s nothing to show Spaziano was wrongly convicted in 1976. “The record to me is clear,” Douglass told the paper. “This man tortured and killed this young woman. Nothing I have seen or heard from Mr. Dilisio or anyone else changes that.” Spaziano, a former president of the Outlaws motorcycle club in Orlando, was convicted of the August 1973 torture-murder of Orlando hospital clerk Laura Lynn Harberts. During the trial, Dilisio testified that Spaziano boasted about mutilating women and took him to an Altamonte Springs dump, where Dilisio saw two bodies. One woman was never identified; the other was Harberts. After Spaziano’s execution was stayed, agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement questioned Dilisio again, Douglass said. “All he has told FDLE is that he can no longer remember” his testimony, Douglass said. “That, to me, does nothing to discredit the testimony of 1976.” But the FDLE is continuing to investigate the new twist in the case – next week, agents are scheduled to administer a polygraph test to Dilisio. Friday, Vermont law professor Michael Mello took over Spaziano’s case. Mello had represented Spaziano through 11 years worth of appeals, but quit in January for health reasons. Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Outlaw case testimony not flawed, lawyer says Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-06-18 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Tallahassee, FL Description An account of the resource Joseph Spaziano was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Laura Lynn Harberts in 1973. Prior to his execution a stay was granted due to media reports casting doubt on Tony Dilisio's testimony. While the FDLE is continuing to investigate the false statement allegations Michael Mello has agreed to return to the case. Subject The topic of the resource Capitol Punishment Witnesses Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 DPI Capital punishment. https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/0d0987680be2f75b55b2514aa482fe9b.jpg 85415642496c2430c593b99ee9fed9f2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilder Grants Death Sentence Reversal Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 2, 1983-1994 Text Text Any textual data included in the document RICHMOND, Va.— Gov. L. Douglas Wilder yesterday commuted the death sentence of convicted murderer Joseph M. Giarratano Jr., who wants to attend Vermont Law School if he can get out of jail in his nationally celebrated case. Giarratano’s scheduled electrocution Friday had become a rallying symbol for death-penalty opponents. Wilder’s conditional pardon which is likely to be accepted by Giarratano by a 5 p.m. [Image] today deadline, reduces Giarratano’s sentence to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole 13 years from now. “I’m still suffering from a slight hangover from celebrating last night,” said Vermont Law professor Mike Mello, who has worked with the drug-addicted-turned-legal expert and advocates his release. Mello mailed letters to Vermont politicians weeks ago “begging them to get in touch with Wilder,” and Giarratano called him a half hour before Wilder announced his decision. Speculating on the governor’s motives — he’s frequently mentioned as a possible presidential candidate — Mello said, “I would say it’s about 80 percent politics, 20 percent justice. . . . I’m very, very skeptical of southern governors, especially southern governors who have national political aspirations.” Wilder — who has refused three other pleas for clemency from condemned murderers during his 13 months in office — gave no reason for his decision in the commutation order. “I have thoroughly reviewed the evidence in the case,” Wilder wrote. “. . . . I have been subjected to significant pleas from across the United States and other parts of the world. . . . While they have been sincere in their expressions of concern . . . the overwhelming majority acknowledge that they do not enjoy a grasp of the specific facts in the case. I, on the other hand, do, as I must.” Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Membreno, Clendra Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilder Grants Death Sentence Reversal Subject The topic of the resource Death row Joseph Giarratano Wilder, Douglas, 1931- Description An account of the resource Governor L. Douglas Wilder commuted Joseph M. Giarratano's death sentence. Giarratano's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole in 13 years. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Valley News Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Michael A. Mello Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991-02-20 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG Language A language of the resource English conditional pardon death penalty Death Row Douglas Wilder Joseph Giarratano Life sentence Mike Mello https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/0fc26f94e78c17e402844b013db2df70.jpg c785ef7ade7fca00aaeda0eb54e353f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 1, 1976-1979 Text Text Any textual data included in the document Four male inhabitants of Westmoreland dorm were brought before an Administrative Hearing last week, which resulted in the expulsion of three of them from the residence hall.There is some question over the proceeding. Pictured are Mitch Sproul, Peter Back, and John Bertenstein. Not pictured is Steve Calhoun. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Brown, Peyton Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Westmoreland Controversy Subject The topic of the resource school discipline Description An account of the resource A photograph of three of the four students involved in vandalism in Westmoreland Hall; Mitch Sproul, Peter Back, and John Bartenstein. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vandever, Thomas Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Newspaper Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977-12-08 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 400 dpi Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Fredericksburg, VA injustice Judicial proceedings noise violation student discipline vandalism Westmoreland Hall Woodard https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/a1c8c1486997650064e8f392793a81c3.jpg b7eb9f3c7afbbc93fb9c794090a46c67 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 4 Text Text Any textual data included in the document [heading] An Outlaw's road [subheading] By Bruce Vielmetti Times Staff Writer [start of the first column] TAMPA -- Clarence Smith wears many marks of an Outlaw. He's got the tattoos, the Harley-Davidson cap, the vest with the skull and crossed pistons and "1 percenter" patches. He also carries the invisible scars of nine years on Louisiana's death row, and the distinction of being the only inmate to leave there a free man. His story got little publicity last year, in part because Smith avoided it. While someone else might have held news conferences and gone on talk shows to decry injustice or seek redress, Smith got a Harley and followed Outlaw Motorcycle Club advice to "go party for a year and get my mind right." Then authorities in Tampa last fall announced the indictment of 18 Outlaws and associates. At a biker funeral in Buffalo, Smith volunteered to come here and hold down the fort at the group's clubhouse of Busch Boulevard. "I was the freshest (out of prison), the cleanest," Smith said. Life on the road was good, he said, "but you gotta have a purpose." His was to support the "brothers" in the latest trial, and to try to get the Tampa chapter back on its feet. He was a daily spectator at the 41 1/2-month trial, where witnesses and prosecutors suggested his presence was just another part of the Outlaws ongoing criminal enterprise. Smith, 51, recently broke his silence about the Tampa case, his own brush with execution, and that of Joseph "Crazy Joe" [end of the first column] [start of the second column] A report in Spaziano's case is disputed. Page 5B [text continued] Spaziano, 50 another veteran Outlaw whose scheduled death in Florida's electric chair was delayed last week after questions were raised about the fairness of his conviction. "The parallels in the two cases are striking," said Spaziano's attorney, Michal Mello. "I'm hoping the final parallel will be that in a retrial, Joe will be acquitted." Smith said he plans to retire from the Outlaws Motorcycle Club soon, but remain a kind of ambassador for the group, which he says law enforcement has unfairly prosecuted for decades. "They've got us targeted for extinction," Smith says. He blames federal racketeering, or RICO laws, that he says make any unpop- [end of the second column] [start of the third column] ular group subject to persecution. "It's us today and y'all tomorrow." Zero tolerance That has been a familiar refrain of Outlaws and their sympathizers. But over the years, law enforcement has prosecuted dozens of members successfully for everything from prostitution to heinous murders. In the recent Tampa case, four Daytona members were found guilty of racketeering conspiracy, and 10 Tampa Bay defendants were found guilty of drug and gun charges. However, half the jury was highly critical of the government's elaborate undercover sting that led to the drug charges. Government witnesses portrayed the Please see ROAD 7B [end page] Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Vol. No./Issue No. Volume and issue number for the newspaper (if available) vol. 68, issue 6 Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Harrison, William Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Outlaw's Road Description An account of the resource The article is a short account of a "outlaw." Clarence Smith was a convicted felon and spent nine years on death row. His story draws many parallels to Joseph Spaziano's according to Spaziano's lawyer. The article continues to briefly talk on Clarence and his work to ensure fairness in trials for felons from his biker gang. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vielmetti, Bruce Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Subject The topic of the resource Capital punishment Gang members Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 DPI Language A language of the resource English Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Vielmetti, Bruce, “An Outlaw's Road,” HIST298, https://hist299.umwhistory.org/admin/items/show/236. https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/836a05af9d889ad3cda1e094096d3b6c.jpg 50b772d92effeeb86a669ec505d05bf9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 2, 1983-1994 Text Text Any textual data included in the document Your article on attorneys representing death row inmates ("The Last Defense" by John Greenya in the November/December 1987 issue) is typical of the sentiment of our liberal legal establishment. The nine-page article makes no mention of the agony endured by survivors of murdered family or friends, nor, in the specific cases cited, to the evidence that persuaded the jurors to convict. But why should trivial considerations like murder victims and prosecutorial evidence be dis- cussed in an article seeking to convince its readers that the real victims are the con-demned murderers themselves. Attorney Mello, in gleefully explaining how he saved one Steve Booker from the electric chair, neglected to share with the readers just why Mr. Booker is on death row. Presumably, he wasn't condemned for jaywalking. Although not familiar with the Booker case, I do know something about the murder committed by Mello's late client, Ronnie Straight. Consequently, I found Mello's talk of Straight's "altruism" to be rather puzzling. Straight was con-victed of the beating and stabbing death of a furniture store owner who had declined to hire him. Hardly the deed of an altruist. Mr. Mello proudly states that he was a pallbearer at Straight's funeral after Straight's execution. I would wager that in his zeal to save Straight, he forgot about a sympathy card for the store owner's family. David Kendall's assertion that "the system is skewed against" death penalty lawyers is absurd. Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Booth v. Mary-land (No. 86-5020), that a man convicted of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of an elderly Baltimore couple could introduce any and all witnesses of his choice to testify on his behalf as to why he should not be sentenced to death. However, the victims' surviving family members could neither ut-ter nor write one word about how the murders affected them. I agree with Mr. Kendall—the system is skewed, but certain-ly not against condemned killers. John Booth's death sentence was overturned. The plethora of mitigating factors con-sidered at a capital sentencing, coupled with federal decisions like Booth v. Maryland, demonstrates that the system is skewed in favor of death row inmates. Finally, two points concerning the author's research. He writes that the District of Columbia has the death penalty. This is absolutely false. Washington, D.C., does not have the death penalty and hasn't had it for a long time. The author also refers to the Washington Post as "generally pro-death." The Washington Post is on record, and has been for as long as I can remember, as being totally opposed to capital punishment in all cases. Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters: Death penalty law Subject The topic of the resource Mello, Michael Description An account of the resource A letter to the editor of The Washington Lawyer in response to an article titled "The Last Defense" by John Greenya which critiqued the stance of the article in relation to criminal justice, specifically referring death penalty cases. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wallace, Scott M. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Washington Lawyer Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January/February 1988 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1987-1988 https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/6eca399d0260866f3a206eb04303d188.jpg b97c5fd9df3332cd4c2c2b1e1937e5d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stop the bad rap on hypnosis Description An account of the resource The vice president of a Miami hypnosis center argues for the legitimacy and value of hypnosis. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource White, Leonor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived White, Leonor, "Stop the Bad Rap on Hypnosis." Miami Herald, June 26, 1995, A6. Subject The topic of the resource The author argues that hypnosis deserves respect in court and out. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 3, 1995 Text Text Any textual data included in the document Re Herald staff writer Lori Rozsa’s June 16 article, A case built on hypnosis crumbles: I made it up, witness now says: I was upset to see my profession once again being put down. Ms. Rozsa, on June 16, told me that what she wrote was the absolute truth, per the state of Florida. My husband and I, along with the AFL/CIO National Federation of Hypnotists Local 104, thoroughly disagree. Primetime Live did a show less than a month ago in which a reporter checked out how and if hypnosis works. The results were all positive. If people would take the time to be educated, negative comments about hypnosis would be stated more respectfully. Hypnosis is constantly getting a bad rap. We have worked very hard at building a good practice and even have become unionized in the past year. My husband has been involved with hypnosis for more than 20 years. It seems a shame that all the good that we do day by day goes untold, and the minute that someone makes a mistake due to lack of education, it is magnified. The article stated that the hypnosis in this case was done in 1975. Twenty years make a big difference. For example, we know today that someone with a mental condition does not make a good subject, nor does his testimony hold up in court. None of this was mentioned. LEONOR WHITE Vice President, North Miami Beach Hypnosis Center North Miami Beach Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Ferrell, Claudine Student Editor of the Digital Item Dickinson, Terra Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stop the bad rap on hypnosis Description An account of the resource The vice president of a Miami hypnosis center argues for the legitimacy and value of hypnosis. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource White, Leonor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived White, Leonor. " Stop the Bad Rap on Hypnosis." Miami Herald, June 26, 1995, 8A. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-06-26 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 DPI Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Miami, FL Subject The topic of the resource Hypnotism and crime https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/d7bb7069862cf29087629b18512341f9.jpg 487343b24320a728019cfd6102e9dccf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 3, 1995 Text Text Any textual data included in the document To the Editor, Michael Mello, professor at Vermont Law School, wrote about the “absurd humanity” of convicts on death row in Florida (Forum, April 16). He does not seek to justify the “hideous crimes” of his Florida clients. He asks readers instead to recognize “that prisoners are more like us normal people than we often want to admit or acknowledge.” Mello points out that “if you were to meet (convicted serial killer Ted) Bundy in your local bar, you’d never know he had confessed to many, many murders. You’d think he was just like you, and for the most part you’d be right … we are similar to him.” Mello does not exactly say what we should make of this, but he seems to be advancing it as an argument against the death penalty. But his observations warrants and sound like normal people, most of them could not have killed anyone. If Ted Bundy had 30-inch horns and behaved as Hulk Hogan pretends to, he could not have murdered so many unsuspecting young women. If John Wayne Gacy had not been an outwardly charming and jovial guy, he could not have enticed dozens of boys to his home in order to rape, torture and murder them. It is precisely because of many murderers’ deceptive ordinariness that society has to treat perpetrators of hideous crimes harshly. Mello’s letter suggests a more disturbing message than confusion about the functions of punishment. Mello is not just saying that it is hard to tell who is a murderer. He asserts that Ted Bundy is essentially like any one else, including, we are to infer, an innocent person who would not commit murder. This implies that we should suspend any moral judgment on such crimes, since it could be any one of us sitting there on death row. How else could one interpret Mello’s conclusion about normal people an criminals: “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them.’ We’re all part of ‘us.’” Appearing as it did during Easter and Passover, the letter might be intended as an appeal to our sense of forgiveness. This is not reprehensible, though the appeal seems better directed at the relatives and friends of Ted Bundy’s victims. What is wrong is Mello’s extraordinary moral relativism. It is strange to have to say this, but ordinary people are not like Ted Bundy. Ordinary people, even those who had unpleasant childhoods, do not go around systematically murdering others. A society that loses its moral capacity to distinguish evil from innocence is one that will ultimately be dominated by evil. William A. Fishcel Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Evans, Kaitryn Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yes, Ted Bundy Is Different Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-04-26 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William A. Fishcel Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Florida Subject The topic of the resource Florida. Death row. Serial killers. Death penalty. Description An account of the resource A letter to the editor concerning Michael Mello's involvement with death row convicts in Florida. The text focuses on Mello's unique coverage of serial killer Ted Bundy. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 DPI Ted Bundy https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/775107f4638603772daa3115f1622cf1.jpg d780a6a7358666fcd8c0940e5d9ab6e8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 4 Text Text Any textual data included in the document [heading] Spaziano insists he's innocent <ul> <li>The Florida Supreme Court will hear arguments today in the case of the rape-murder convict scheduled to die Sept. 21.</li> </ul> By Ron Word [start of the first column] STARKE -- Outlaws motorcycle gang member Joseph "Crazy Joe" Spaziano grows quiet when asked about his impending death in the electric chair for the rape, mutilation and murder of a teenage hospital clerk. He rubs his handcuffed hands against his chin and tears fill his eyes as he proclaims his innocence. [Image of Spaziano] "I'm not guilty of no murder. I'm not guilty of no rape," Spaziano said in an hourlong prison interview Wednesday just two weeks before his scheduled Sept. 21 execution. "The only thing Im guilt of is smoking a few reefers," he said from behind a glass partition. Unless his last-minute appeals are successful, Spaziano will be put to death for the 1973 rape, torture, murder and mutilation of Laura Lynn Harberts, an 18-year-old Orlando woman. "I don't know the girl, I know nothing about it," the heavily tattooed Spaziano said. Spaziano, 49, who wears a skull and crossbones ring and has the same emblem with the name of the Outlaws tattooed on the inner side of his right arm, believes he was framed because of his membership in the gang. "I never took the stand. Who would believe an Outlaw?" he said. "There were so many lies. I figured a higher court would see that." Spaziano has shaved his head, something he said he has done after all five of his death warrants. He did not want prison guards to do it in preparation for his electrocution. "So they don't have to touch my head. I don't like people to touch me," he said. [end of the first column] [start of the second column] Spaziano had been scheduled to die in June, but Gov. Lawton Chiles delayed the execution after Spaziano's attorney Michael Mello raised questions about Spaziano's guilt. Oral arguments in his appeal are scheduled today before the Florida Supreme Court. Anthony DiLisio, the star witness against Spaziano, has said he lied when he testified Spaziano allowed him the bodies of Ms. Harberts and another woman at a Seminole Count Dump. Dilisio, 38 and living in Pensacola, now says the information came from police, who had him hypnotized to help his memory. After interviewing DiLisio and conducting an investigation, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a secret report to Chiles that persuaded him to sign a new death warrant. "I really thought the governor was looking at my case," Spaziano said. Several witnesses linked Spaziano to Ms. Harberts and the dump where the decayed bodies were found Aug. 22, 1971. But DiLisio, who has a long history of alcohol and drug abuse, was the only one who could directly connect Spaziano to the bodies. The governor has refused to release the secret report, saying he didn't want to reveal the names of confidential witnesses. The report reportedly contains allegations that a witness tied Spaziano to two murders and another rape. Spaziano, who got a life sentence in an unrelated 1975 rape conviction, has spect much of his 19 years on death row drawing and painting cartoon characters. He is especially fond of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters. He also likes to paint pictures of motorcycles and their riders. Since being placed in a cell just steps from Florida's electric chair, "Old Sparky." Spaziano said, he has been restless. "Every day is hard. I've got to get ready for it," he said. "I'm just waiting to die. I do a lot of walking back and forth. I don't sleep much. "I want to get as much life in as I can. People can sleep when they are dead." [end of article] Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Dacey, Rachel Student Editor of the Digital Item Dickinson, Terra Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spaziano insists he's innocent Subject The topic of the resource Spaziano, Joe Capital Punishment Description An account of the resource Spaziano later claims his innocence in court and Gov. Lawton Chiles delayed Spaziano's execution based on this information. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Word, Ron Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-09-05 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 DPI Language A language of the resource English Capital punishment. death penalty Gov. Lawton Chiles Michael A. Mello https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/3b8b70ddae78c2aba2bd553dced8a637.jpg bcb7e15a27d6cd1e58ccc0530e72a1ce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 1, 1976-1979 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper cartoon Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 4x3 inches Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Balance of Administrative Power against Student and Faculty Power Subject The topic of the resource School management and organization Description An account of the resource A political cartoon depicting an unbalanced scale, with the Administrative Power bag weighing significantly more than the smaller Student Power and Faculty Power bags. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Prometheus, October 17, 1977, 5. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977-10-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 JPG 300 dpi Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mello: 14 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Fredericksburg, VA https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/f6d818a534019a56ed35b3983f7f1765.jpg 9f3c091fdcb5b2788f4974f4babeb166 https://hist299.umwhistory.org/files/original/79d8cc8afadddc8c35bb30a8b44a7f5a.jpg 3a3a9d20d1292f7bed5c13c2fce79b6a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michael A. Mello Papers, Series 1 News Clippings, Binder 2, 1983-1994 Text Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data newspaper Contributor of the Digital Item Person submitting the digital item to the collection. Huffman, Suzanne Text Any textual data included in the document SUPPOSE trial judges were free to dispatch a criminal defendant to prison even after a jury of his peers had declared him not guilty. Unthinkable? Of course it is. Yet that's precisely how the death sentence is administered in Florida, where judges are empowered to condemn a convicted murderer to death even if the jury unanimously recommends a life prison sentence. Aldebert Rivers was convicted of first-degree murder in 1982 for his role in the shooting death of a North Miami waitress. Nine men and three women deliberated only an hour before returning their guilty verdict. Later, after another hour of deliberation, the same jury recommended that Rivers be sentenced to life in prison. Dade Circuit Judge Ellen Morphonios accepted the jury's finding of guilt but rejected its recommendation for mercy, arguing that the aggravating circumstances of Rivers's crime compelled his execution. Last week, in a unanimous ruling, the Florida Supreme Court rebuked Judge Morphonios for defying the jury's recommendation and ordered Rivers's sentence commuted to life in prison. Of the 38 states that permit capital punishment, only three allow trial judges to override a jury's recommendation for mercy. Judges in Alabama and Indiana have invoked that authority sparingly. But in Florida, already home of the nation's largest condemned-inmate population, trial judges have imposed the death penalty over the jury's objections 87 times since capital punishment was restored in 1972. The state supreme court wisely has declared that judges who overrule a jury's recommendation of life will be sustained only when the facts suggesting a sentence of death are "so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ" with the judge's decision. After reviewing 62 cases in which a judge imposed the death penalty over the jury's objections, the high court has upheld only 19 death sentences. Seven of the 19 subsequently were overturned by Federal appellate courts. Capital punishment is the state's proper prerogative, but there is great folly and danger inherent in a system that allows a single judge to override the collective wisdom of 12 ordinary citizens. Florida juries have showed no reluctance to recommend the ultimate penalty when the circumstances of a particular murder compel it. The customary practice of excluding from first-degree murder juries those who acknowledge an unalterable opposition to the death penalty should endow a jury's recommendation of mercy with even greater weight. State legislators have ducked several opportunities to bring Florida into step with the vast majority of states who have circumscribed the judge's sentencing authority in capital cases. Judge Morphonios's overzealousness in the Aldebert Rivers case underlines the need to reassert the jury's role as the community's conscience. Oh, Danny! THERE'S probably no truth to the rumor that the residents of San Marino Island along the Venetian Causeway, with an eye toward the Don Shula Expressway to the west, are considering changing the name of their winning surroundings to Dan Marino Island. On the other hand, if the NFL's Wunderkind leads the Dolphins to a 16-0 season, he may well qualify for sainthood - and make the name change unnecessary. Student Editor of the Digital Item Williams, Megan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jury's Precedence Subject The topic of the resource Capital punishment--Florida. Protest movements--United States. Capital punishment--Florida--Public opinion. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Miami Herald Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available HIST 298, University of Mary Washington Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984-11-07 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials in this online collection are held by Special Collections, Simpson Library, University of Mary Washington and are available for educational use. For this purpose only, you may reproduce materials without prior permission on the condition that you provide attribution of the source. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 2 jpgs 300 dpi Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Florida capital punishment Florida juries