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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The Email edition is available: Lexis reveals no new favorable published opinions from the various appellate courts around the country. In the news, Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio granted clemency to Jeffrey Hill following the unanimous rationale and recommendation of the Ohio Parole Board which had cited five basic reasons for its recommendation: “the views of the victim’s family, the lack of adequate representation by counsel at Mr. Hill’s sentencing, the remorse demonstrated by Mr. Hill regarding his actions, the lack of proportionality of the sentence of death in this case when compared with similar murder cases, and the expressed views of two justices of the Ohio Supreme Court which reviewed this case on appeal.” The New Mexico House voted last week to repeal that state’s death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).