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Harbison v. Bell

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When the Supreme Court met this morning, in addition to issuing opinions in three cases, the Court agreed to examine seven more cases in its next term, which begins in October 2008.  Two of those are of interest here. In an earlier post today, I mentioned Cone v. Bell, dealing with a technical, but very important question of the filing of habeas petitions. The Court also agreed to consider Harbison v. Bell, which will examine whether there is a right to federally appointed and funded counsel to pursue state executive clemency under a 2005 federal law. AP reports, "Court to rule in Tennessee inmate's appeal." The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether poor death row inmates seeking mercy from state officials have a right to lawyers paid for by federal taxpayers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).