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Curtis Osborne update

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The State of Georgia scheduled Wednesday night to kill Curtis Osborne. A few hours after that scheduled x-hour no news.  The execution wire to the right will likely update before any blog post. On background the Atlanta Journal Constitution ran this piece by William Sessions: The case of Curtis Osborne was never a simple one. When a Georgia jury convicted Osborne of two counts of murder in 1991 and sentenced him to death, it was in the shadow of claims that Johnny Mostiler, his court-appointed defense attorney, told another client that Osborne was “a little [racial epithet]” who “deserves to die.” When the justices of the Georgia Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence, it was in the face of evidence that Mostiler was handling more than 600 cases at the time, more than four times the limit established by the American Bar Association...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).