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9th grants nocapital habeas relief

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via CrimProf Blog: A federal court of appeals on Thursday overturned the conviction of a West Valley man found guilty of killing nine people at a Buddhist temple west of Phoenix in 1991. Jonathan Doody was one of two youths convicted of the infamous temple murders, and he has been serving nine life sentences in state prison since his conviction in 1994. But, on Thursday, a panel of three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that detectives from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office forced a confession from Doody. The judges sent the case back to Maricopa County Superior Court for a new trial. “They used every trick in the book,” his attorney, Alan Dershowitz, said. “They denied him the right to have a parent there...continue to full post

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