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Urban legends already surrounding the Nichols case?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Urban legends surrounding high profile criminal cases are nothing new.  So when I received the email below on the Brian Nichols case, I at first shrugged it off. I decided, however, others might want to know what some are thinking out there: The Nichols case had nothing to do with “skilled attorneys”. It was a sole juror who would not vote for death. It doesn’t take much skill these days to get one person on the jury to vote against the death penalty. Anyone else spot the problem with the email?  Press accounts have the number of people voting against death as 3.  Far from being a lone nutty hold-out as the writer suggests, the votes for life mirror,  roughly mirror the sentiment in the Atlanta area on the question of life vs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).