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Nothing Enrages Clarence Thomas Like Criminal Defendants Having Constitutional Rights

In a one-sentence order last month, the Supreme Court declined to review Davis v. Smith,  a case about an Ohio man challenging his conviction for attempted murder on the grounds that detectives had urged the victim, who repeatedly told them she could not remember who attacked her, to nevertheless identify him, David Smith, as the perpetrator. Last year, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found in Smith’s favor, finding that police had obtained t…