Troy Anthony Davis was granted oral arguments before a 3 panel judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on December 9th at 1pm. Open to Public.

Atlanta Journal Opinion
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/11/18/sessionsed_1118.html

Our system owes Troy Davis another day in court

By WILLIAM S. SESSIONS

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

It is wrong to execute an innocent man. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will now consider whether it is constitutional. Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of murder, is asking the courts to hear evidence that key government witnesses have repudiated their testimony against him. But so far the courts have decided that, while he may be innocent, procedural rules prevent them from taking a second look.

Still not entirely sure just how violent the police were towards protesters at this year's RNC?  Check out some of the photographic evidence of the unnecessary use of force by police during these protests at:

http://twincities.indymedia.org/2008/nov/survivors-rnc-violence-speak-out .

 Warning, some of the pictures are slightly graphic and disturbing.

It’s very rare occurrence in my life, when I can step back and say to myself “Wow, I was just part of something amazing.”  But this afternoon, on my walk back from the Federal Court building, I knew that what I had just witnessed something that can only be described as just that: amazing.

In an absolutely landmark, groundbreaking decision, the Hon. Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled, for the first time in the facilities’ history, that 17 inmates currently held in the Guantanamo Bay prison must be released immediately into the United States.  Displaying unwavering poise and determination, Judge Urbina, in finally upholding the U.S. Constitution, clearly stated that this country, this land of the free, “has no right to hold prisoners indefinitely without charge.”  These 17 men are members of the Uighur ethnic group, and are deemed No Longer Enemy Combatants (NLEC) of the United States, a fact that both the Guantanamo petitioners and the government representatives upheld.  Judge Urbina made it beautifully clear that under his jurisdiction, prisoners who were in no way a threat to our national security, and who were being held without any sort of charge, could not be held indefinitely, and he used his judicial rights of lawful interpretation to prove it.  In a time when the rights of Guantanamo prisoners have been slowly improving over time, this decision, and the adamant way in which Judge Urbina stressed the moral base of it, may prove to completely change the way that this government operates in Guantanamo.