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Supreme Court won't take up California death case

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U-S Supreme Court refused today to take up the case of California death row inmate "Tookie" Williams, a founder of the Crips street gang whose later work for peace won him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Williams has been praised for his children's books and efforts to curtail youth gang violence. He claims prosecutors violated his rights when they dismissed all potential black jurors.
California attorneys said Williams did not contest the makeup of the jury at trial and that it's too late to do so now.
Williams was sentenced to death in 1981 for killing a convenience store worker and also was convicted of killing three other people. He claims jailhouse informants fabricated testimony that he confessed.

Jamie Foxx played this guy in an HBO special.