Jury Was Tainted, Inmate Says ; Foster Bates, Convicted in 2002 of a South Portland Woman's Murder, Is Seeking a New Trial.
Portland Press Herald › June 06, 2007
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A defense lawyer became a witness on Tuesday in his former client's fight to overturn a murder conviction.
Foster Bates was convicted in 2002 of the rape and murder of Tammy Dickson, who was found strangled to death in her South Portland apartment.See the full content of this document
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Jury Was Tainted, Inmate Says ; Foster Bates, Convicted in 2002 of a South Portland Woman's Murder, Is Seeking a New Trial.
Bates, 40, charges that his lawyers failed to exclude three jurors who had read a newspaper article at the opening of his trial that described Dickson's infant son being found in a playpen near his m...
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