Oliver was convicted in June.
Mrs. Humphrey is the mother of Oliver
Davis. Today, she said she simply
wants her son back and is hopeful that
she can get him back.
Following the Supreme Court hearing
tomorrow in Austin, Davis, a
former Skyline high school basketball
star, was 19 when convicted
to a ninety nine year prison term for
sodomy.
He's now 22.
He was first arrested in L.A.
The charge was armed robbery, a
charge he never came to trial for.
But while in jail at Waxahachie, he was
charged with sodomy and convicted.
Since then, his mother, with the help of
the Free Oliver Davis committee, has
been seeking a new trial, claiming his
civil rights were violated.
I just want Oliver home while
he's still young enough to go to school.
And because it is amazing that
four guys that were incarcerated
with Oliver that admitted on
the witness stand that they committed the
robbery and the sodomy and
that Oliver Davis had nothing to do with
it. And all of these young men are free.
And Oliver Davis is still
serving a 99 year prison
sentence when
the president right now is thinking
of giving up.
Patricia Hearst,
a trip home for Christmas.
And here, my phone.
I love my son as much as
the first love their daughter, where
Mrs. Humphrey plans to be in Austin
tomorrow for the hearing, she admits it
could be weeks before a decision is made
and that if that decision is not to free
her son, that she will take the case
to the Supreme Court of the nation.
She admits she's tired, but adds she will
die trying to gain her son's release
if need be.
Carrie Sims, The Texas News.
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