US Supreme Court tosses out conviction in killing of Saints star Will Smith
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Source: WBRZ
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NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the manslaughter conviction in the death of former New Orleans Saint Will Smith.
Documents obtained by WBRZ show the United States highest court tossed the conviction of Cardell Hayes, who was imprisoned on manslaughter charges for killing Smith in 2016. Hayes had initially been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting, which followed a traffic incident in New Orleans, but a jury later convicted him of manslaughter in a 10-2 vote.
Despite Isolation, Tasmanian Tiger Pups Were More Like Wolves Than Other Marsupials
12 JANUARY 2021
The thylacine has long been considered a truly remarkable species. The extinct Australian beast was a marsupial, but its skull was distinctly canine in appearance, almost identical to the skulls of red foxes and grey wolves.
Now, new research has confirmed that this resemblance wasn t limited to adult thylacines (
Thylacinus cynocephalus) - it was present even in the skulls of newborn pups, and persisted throughout the animal s lifespan.
The finding could shed more light on how different animals can evolve similar characteristics to occupy similar ecological niches, even though they might be unrelated and separated by space and time - a phenomenon known as convergent evolution.