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: Capital Defense Weekly

Life: what a beautiful choice Johnny Paul Penry

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

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Johnny Paul Penry has pleaded to life. Details are trickling in. Congratulations to John Wright, who has been Johnny’s defense lawyer since the first trial in 1980, and Mr. Wright’s co-counsel Frank Blazek, Julia Tarver Mason, David Lane, and Danalynn Recer. Stand Down has initial reactions. A loyal reader informs me that a life sentence plea has been struck for Johnny Paul Penry, whose case has been synonymous with mental retardation and capital punishment. Huntsville attorney John E. Wright has been Penry’s long-standing primary attorney.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Penry latest death sentence in an October 2005 ruling. Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court refused an appeal by the State of Texas to revisit that ruling...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).

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