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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This this week’s email edition is now available.  From the intro: A large number of favorable opinions are being reported this edition, including two missed last week and multiple Supreme Court justices commenting on the denial of cert in a Florida capital case. The Fifth Circuit granted relief in Anthony Cardell Haynes v. Quarterman on a Batson/Miller-El claim.  In getting to the grant of relief the Haynes panel looks at appellate fact finding and deference under AEDPA (this is a must read for federal habeas types).   As Mark Bennett notes ” the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals noted that the judge, who did not observe the voir dire, had no reason to uphold the prosecution?s demeanor-based justifications for its peremptory challenges of the two black jurors...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 15, 2009 (boomark / email).