"Although the connectivity and expediency by which this review was accomplished is mind-boggling, I should not be surprised, given that the families of victims of the clandestine 'Fast and Furious' gun running operation can't get the Department of Justice to identify the decision makers (whose actions resulted in the death of a border agent and many others) after years of inquiry, and that this is the same Department of Justice that grants and enforces Miranda warnings to foreign enemy combatants."
—Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Michael Randolph, of Hattiesburg, in the dissenting opinion to grant a stay of execution for Willie Manning.
Why it stinks: The Mississippi Supreme Court granted Willie Jerome Manning a stay of execution after the Federal Bureau of Investigation twice admitted that investigators overstated the scientific significance of evidence during Manning's original trial. The court voted 8-1 to issue the stay just hours before the state was to execute Manning.
What's "mind-boggling" is the correlation between the FBI letters, Willie Manning and the DOJ's 2009 "Fast and Furious" gun-running program, which makes Randolph's dissent sound like a political rant instead of a court decision.
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