Equal Justice Initiative director to speak at UI
MOSCOW -- Bryan Stevenson, who has won national acclaim for helping condemned prisoners seek justice in the South, will present the University of Idaho College of Law's Bellwood Lecture today.
Stevenson, the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., will talk about confronting injustice at 4 p.m. in the Student Union Building Ballroom.
The talk also will be telecast at 4 p.m. at Lewis-Clark State College at Lewiston. The telecast will be in Room 50 of the Sam Glen Building.
As leader of the Alabama initiative, Stevenson and his volunteer lawyers defend indigents and prisoners who claim they have been denied fair legal treatment, including 100 prisoners facing execution in that state.
A Harvard Law School graduate, Stevenson was an attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Ga., and in 1995 won a MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 prize with no strings attached "to exercise his creative instincts for the benefit of society."
Moscow police seek would-be armed robber
MOSCOW -- Police are investigating an attempted armed robbery that occurred Tuesday night in downtown Moscow.
At about 9:30 p.m., a man entered the Pita Pit on Main Street and allegedly brandished a small silver gun and demanded money from the clerk, according to Moscow police.
Witnesses described a white male, approximately 5-feet-8-inches tall, wearing a Halloween mask similar to the one featured in the movie "Scream," a dark blue shirt and black baggy pants.
The man then fled on foot, running north on Main Street near Second Street.
"As far as we know, he didn't get any money," Moscow Police Capt. Don Lanpher said Wednesday.
Police are asking anyone who may have information about the identity of the man to contact Jim Kouril at the Moscow Police Department.
