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News Coverage of Cert Grant in Cone and Harbison

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There is limited news coverage today of the Supreme Court's decision yesterday to hear two Tennessee death penalty cases in its next term.  Each raises a significant issue for capital litigation. In the New York Times, Adam Liptak reports, "Death Row Inmate's Case Gets 3rd Hearing."The central issue in the case, Cone v. Bell, No. 07-1114, is whether and when federal courts are free to reconsider such state court rulings. Dissenting from a ruling last year against Mr. Cone by a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit, Judge Gilbert S. Merritt wrote that Mr. Cone deserved to have at least one court consider the impact of the new evidence. ?No court, state or federal, has as yet reviewed the claim on the merits,? Judge Merritt wrote...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).