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first look at the St. Patty’s Day week edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

As sometimes happens, the best cases are in the noncapital ones.  Of course, the continuing wave of repeal is the story of the week. More after the jump. For the Prosecution or Executioner Ricky Jovan Gray v. Warden, 2011 Va. LEXIS 62 (Va. March 4, 2011)  ?A habeas petitioner was granted a writ as to his life sentences imposed under Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-31(7) and (8) because counsel failed to protect petitioner’s rights to be free from double jeopardy where the crimes arose from the same criminal act and one punishment was for a crime which was a lesser included offense of the other.? [via Lexisone] Anthony Bernard Juniper v. Warden, 2011 Va. LEXIS 61(Va. March 4, 2011)  ?Habeas petitioner failed to demonstrate that counsel’s performance was deficient or that there was a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s alleged errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 14, 2011 (boomark / email).