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Rest in Peace Michael

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Michael Mello has died. I could try to capture in words what he has meant to a generation of young formerly young lawyers, but Vermont Public Radio captures it better than  I could: Mello spent his early career in the 1980s as a public defender in Florida’s capital appeals division. His clients were people sentenced to death. He became such an expert on the subject that he was called for advice on some of the most prominent capital cases over the years - Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and serial murderer Ted Bundy among them. His overarching concern was that mistakes might be made - errors that could never be corrected when the punishment is death. That’s what Mello worried about three years ago when a legislator proposed reviving capital punishment in Vermont...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).