It was probably inevitable, once a backpack exploded in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park nearly six years ago, that a piece of litigation related to that act of terrorism would land before the U.S. Supreme Court.
That happened May 2, in the form of a petition for certiorari for Richard Jewell, the private security guard hailed as a hero for discovering the bomb, only to be subjected to withering scrutiny by the media when authorities initially focused their investigation on him. The Justice Department eventually cleared Jewell of any involvement in the bombing.
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