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Who would of thunk it?

By cdw

Who would have thunk that on the day lightning strikes in the Fourth Circuit in Justin Wolfe’s case that the Ninth Circuit, en banc, would deny rehearing or  relief on a plausible claim of factual innocence, that of Kevin Cooper .  From Prof Martin: It’s 113 pages. Single-spaced. Plus, that figure doesn’t even contain the majority opinion, since we’re talking about a dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc. Still. If you’re going to read one 100+ page dissent from the Ninth Circuit this year, this should be the one. I say that notwithstanding the fact — and I know this will turn some people off — that Judge Willie Fletcher’s dissent contains a number of graphs and a number of references to r-squared statistics and the like...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).