And effective Death Penalty reform act which made it nearly impossible to use habeas corpus to free innocent prisoners. Despite all of the setbacks come 2002 was a blockbuster year for the Innocence Movement. 25 people were exonerated by dna testing. Still the highest number of dna exonerations in any one year to date. Teenage exonerations became part of the public consciousness and people starte are starting to understand that the system made mistakes. It also is a big year for mike mcalister. People have forgotten about him, but his mom wrote to frank green, reporter at the Richmond Times dispatch who began writing about his case. A new lawyer also signed on to help mike and defiled a partners petition within Virginia Governor mike warner. Virginia was no stranger to the problem of wrongful convictions and had seen its share of eyewitnesses but in 2003, mikes petition was denied. The governors staff said they would be one thing if my cat dna evidence, but he didnt. From 20032013, 187
Itself issues. Texas a quand m, university of texas at austin, the university of houston, other institutions, these arell public universities. And these individuals, these students, pay tuition to go to these public universities. And in response, theyre issued identification vehicles. Identification cards. But the state of texas has seen fit to say, thats not valid in order to vote. And i think that one example, and weve heard several others, basically exposes the fact that the movement to impose voter identification requirements is a fraud itself. Its a sham. The whole argument behind it is that were trying to protect the integrity of the Voting System. Heres the problem. Youre protecting the integrity of the Voting System by imposing a solution in search of a problem. Because none of these individuals in any of these states has been able to produce a scintilla of evidence of fraud. In fact, there are studies that have shown that there have been over a billion instances of americans e
Tonight was about the fans. And to see a stadium packed like this. Its been a while and it has been a lot of fun. After what happened tonight, after everything in this stadium, you imagine yourself wearing another uniform . Right now is all about tonight. These pin stripes are the best. Alex, thank you. Congratulations. Back to you. It was great the night. Started off with thunderstorms during the ceremony and rbi double and the Rodriguez Family here. The yankees win tonight 63 over the rays. This night was about Alex Rodriguez. We have seen him as a mariner, started off as an 18yearold and continueed with texas with the biggest deal this game has seen. And then the pin stripes in 04, a world series in 09. In 22 years in the major league the, Alex Rodriguez his final game of his yankees career and maybe his major league career. You witnessed it tonight. It was a fun one from the bronx. Thank you for watching. If youve ever been lured in by a low price wireless plan. Then theres not eno
Official. Day three. It will likely be a Long Duration event. Look at the current feels like temperatures at this late hour. Still feeling like 97 in philadelphia. Feels like 98 in dover and 92 in Atlantic City. Much of the area now through the end of the weekend feels like temperatures over 100 degrees during the afternoon. That includes Lehigh Valley, i95 corridor, south jersey, all of delaware. In fact as we talk a little bit about those temperatures, you can see 93 on wednesday. It was 95 yesterday, 97 today. Were looking at 98 degrees tomorrow. Making it the hottest day so far this year. That big area of High Pressure that bermuda high will continue to act like a heat pump across the area and those temperatures are going to soar. As we look at the extended forecast you can see feeling like 111 tomorrow. Feeling like 107 for sunday. Coming up well talk about popup showers and storms and a little bit of relief with that forecast. Dawn . All right, thank you, scott. In todays oppress
Abc 7 News Reporter Alyssa Harrington reported about how lgbt groups and supporters were standing in solidarity with the black lives matters campaign. A march in east oakland. A civil rights slide show, a rally in San Franciscos castro district. These are just a few of several demonstrations happening in the bay area over the Martin Luther king jr. Holiday weekend. Protests against Police Violence involving black men and other minorities. The movement is also to take back mlks legacy and support nonviolence civil disobedience. Until we get justice, there will be no peace. In oakland a group marched from the eastmont police substation. Four were arrested on the way. How do you not care . Among the demonstrators, her son was shot and killed by police when he was 16 and she has traveled to rallies all over the country to demand justice. New york, chicago, all around oakland, everywhere that were not going to go anywhere and were trying to educate mothers to get off the couch and do this.