![]() He was promoted two weeks ago.Īgricultural Research Service Administrator T.B. Larry Wilson, 48, has been appointed director of the Office of Financial Management for USDA. agricultural negotiator at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks in Geneva. Kay has remained as head of the Foreign Agricultural Service since Lyng let it be known that he was his choice to succeed Daniel G. The key position, open since last August, has been filled in the interim by Richard W. ![]() Lyng refused to elaborate, but he acknowledged last week that problems have stalled the potential nomination of Thomas O. Lyng's choice for undersecretary for international relations and commodity affairs, one of the USDA's top policy positions, apparently has run into trouble in the clearance process. Mathews, a 32-year-old Yale Law School graduate, was deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy, handling judicial selection, and before that was special counsel to Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds.Īgriculture Secretary Richard E. Mathews, who had been detailed last year to serve as his assistant on Iran-contra matters. Meese has also selected a new executive assistant, Steve A. Levin, 30, a graduate of Temple University School of Law, was an associate deputy attorney general from March 1985 to July 1986, moved to the Interior Department to be deputy solicitor from July 1986 to January 1987, then returned to Justice to work for Meese. Richardson Jr., tapping Mark Levin, who had been his special counsel since last January. Alabama.Attorney General Edwin Meese III has picked a new chief of staff to replace the departing John M. Read Edwin Meese III’s amicus brief in William Ernest Kuenzel v. Bravin, “ Law-Enforcement Legends Team Up in Death-Penalty Fight,” Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2016.) See New Voices and Innocence. In an amicus brief, Meese calls the withholding of that evidence “the very worst kind of Brady violation, which resulted in condemning to death a defendant whose conviction was obtained in violation of the Constitution and who is very likely actually innocent.” Morgenthau said of Kuenzel, “here’s no possible way he could have committed the murder.” Meese and Morgenthau also share a concern about the quality of representation in capital cases, and are calling for automatic appellate review of the competence of defense counsel. Since the trial, previously-withheld evidence has emerged that supports Kuenzel’s innocence claim, including police notes of an initial interview with Venn in which he said another man was in the car with him, and the grand jury testimony of the passerby in which the girl said that she “couldn’t really see” the faces of the men in the store. Venn agreed and spent only ten years in prison, but Kuenzel maintained his innocence and rejected the deal. Alabama prosecutors offered both men a deal for leniency if they agreed to plead guilty and testify against one another. He was convicted after Venn admitted to having driven the car, but claimed that Kuenzel had actually shot the clerk, and a 16-year-old passenger in a car that was passing by the store testified that she had seen Venn and Kuenzel inside the store. Kuenzel was implicated in the murder after a car belonging to Harvey Venn, a boarder in Kuenzel’s home, was seen near the crime scene. Meese and Morgenthau belong to different political parties and take opposing views on capital punishment, but both believe that Kuenzel was wrongfully convicted and condemned for the 1987 murder of a convenience store clerk and deserves a chance to present new evidence. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, believe that Alabama death row prisoner William Kuenzel is innocent and are urging the U.S. Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, and Robert Morgenthau, the long-time district attorney of Manhattan who served as a U.S. Edwin Meese III (pictured), who served as U.S.
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