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Federal Public Defender Units in Ohio to Focus on Death-Penalty Cases

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That's the title of an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported by Reginald Fields.  LINKBefore 2007, the federal court's Northern District of Ohio never had a capital punishment trial. Last year it had two - including the high-profile Donna Moonda murder-for-hire trial in Akron - and the federal public defender's office watched from the gallery, unable to do much even if it had been asked. That soon will change. Ohio's two federal public defenders - one for the Northern District, based in Cleveland, the other in the Southern District in Columbus - are both hiring lawyers who will specialize in handling death penalty cases. For defendants, it might mean more competent aid from lawyers who better know the U.S. court system...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).