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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Long weekend, tech issues.  After the jump this week’s case list.  An email edition will go out next week. - thanks Week of August 18, 2008 ? In Favor of the Defendant or the Condemned Jesse Bond v. Beard, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 17726 (3rd Cir 8/20/2008) Trial counsel  failed to adequately investigate the Condemned?s social history. “Counsel for Bond failed to meet this constitutional minimum. Had they investigated Bond?s background and mental health, they would have presented a starkly different picture of Bond to the jury at the penalty phase than the one they actually presented. A reasonable lawyer who understood Bond?s life history would not have proceeded on the theory that he had led a productive life before going on a crime spree as a result of a series of disappointments...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 01, 2008 (boomark / email).