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from the intro to this week’s double edition This “double edition” brings two previously unreported “wins.” The Fifth Circuit in an unpublished opinion, John Adams v. Quarterman, affirms the district court’s grant of sentencing relief as trial counsel failed to adequately investigate & present mitigating evidence; the panel denied all other relief. In Johnny Street Parker v. Branker a Fourth Circuit panel, in an unpublished order, remands for an evidentiary hearing on Brady related claims. In the other litigation news, an Ohio federal district court lifted the federal lethal injection litigation related stay, Cooey v. Strickland, in the Buckeye state.   Dramatically concurring in Wiles v. Bagley, Judge Boyce Martin, the former Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit noted his continuing concern about capital punishment as a public policy issue, especially in lean economic times...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).