evidence: "Jeff Davis just can’t be trusted to keep our communities safe. In fact, Jeff Davis spent years defending a convicted cop killer, who murdered a correctional officer in cold blood. The killer was sentenced to death row, and Jeff Davis tried to get him off the hook." [...] When Davis was a private lawyer, he worked for a large law firm and, starting in 1992 and going on for years thereafter, Davis represented a man named William Van Poyck in a post-conviction (appeal) in a murder case. Van Poyck had been convicted for a 1987 incident where Van Poyck and a man named Frank Valdes reportedly attacked a prison guard named Fred Griffis during a prisoner transport. Griffis was shot and killed. Van Poyck and Valdes each accused the other of being the person who killed Griffis. However, Van Poyck and Valdes were both convicted and sentenced to death. [...] It is important to have good lawyers, such as Davis, represent people in criminal cases – even persons accused or convicted of the most serious crimes. Our Constitutional system would be broken without having lawyers willing to take on that extraordinarily important role. While Davis’ attempt at clemency was ultimately unsuccessful in the case, our system depends on the willingness of good lawyers to provide zealous representation to everyone accused of a crime, even if the person is ultimately found guilty. Moreover, we demand that same kind of zeal on appeal because it is indisputable that there have been many people in the United States who have been exonerated after being sentenced to die.