Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Lose That Lawyer

By standdown

That's the title of journalist Alan Berlow's latest, at Slate.com.  It's subtitled, "Do defendants in Georgia have any right at all to competent representation?"During his five years as a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, four of them as chief justice, Norman S. Fletcher says he voted to affirm "countless" murder convictions and a significant number of death sentences. But today Judge Fletcher is having second thoughts about one man he voted to send to the executioner in June 1993. Curtis Osborne is scheduled to be put to death by the state of Georgia tomorrow night for a gruesome double murder he committed in 1990. There is no question that Osborne is guilty. But Fletcher says neither Osborne's jury nor the Georgia Supreme Court knew the full truth about his history at the time they made their decisions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).