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Florida can't cut corners in death cases

A Times Editorial Florida can't cut corners in death cases In print: Saturday, November 8, 2008 http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article894919.ece The Florida Supreme Court has set aside the Legislature's latest and hopefully final attempt to provide death row inmates with representation on the cheap. The high court recently ruled that attorneys appointed to represent death row inmates in postconviction appeals may not be punished if they charge the state for hours worked beyond a set limit established by law. The ruling is the culmination of years of failed attempts by the Legislature and former Gov. Jeb Bush to constrain the amount of effort death penalty attorneys may exert on behalf of their clients. If the state wants to maintain the death penalty, it is now clear that death row inmates are going to have to be given a lawyer who isn't told to skimp on their defense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).