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The Importance of Mitigation

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The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania reports, "New specialists delve deep to keep convicts off death row."  It's written by Debbie Garlicki.Mitigation experts, who can be social workers, educators, psychologists or anthropologists, are becoming crucial as state appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court continue to demand more of lawyers mounting a defense in capital murder cases. If defense lawyers don't get medical, school, juvenile or other records, they risk being deemed ineffective. More than the lawyers' reputations are at stake. Death penalties can be -- and have been -- thrown out in Lehigh County and across the country because lawyers didn't do ''reasonable'' investigations that could have meant the difference between life and death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).