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email edition (finally) available

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

My apologies for running a little late. This week?s much delayed email edition iis here. From the introduction to that edition This week’s edition brings a little bit for every need.  For the federal habeas litigator there is the Fifth Circuit’s Michael Wayne Hall v. Quarterman, which deals the 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), factual development in postconviction and Atkins.  The Georgia Supreme Court looks at measuring sticks, the American Bar Association Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases and the Southern Center for Human Rights Defense Manual, holding that Mark Hall’s trial counsel failed to adequately investigate and present mitigation evidence  Looking at state sentencing schemes, the Nevada Supreme Court in Eugene Hollis Nunner v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 15, 2008 (boomark / email).