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The Fourth Circuit rules in Green v. Johnson

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

It’s the Fourth Circuit, need I say more? In a case from Virginia, Green v. Johnson, the Fourth Circuit denies relief on a mental retardation claim (his IQ scores & adaptive deficits would let him live in about half of the jurisdictions tracked here). Relief is also denied on an “ineffective assistance of counsel claim, which is premised on his trial counsel?s failure to appeal the noncapital convictions after his first trial.”

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).