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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The weekly is available. From the intro: As the summer winds down, as often happens, the number of opinions in capital cases declines.  Of note this week is the affirmance of a divided Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc in John Thompson v Connick. A jury below awarded $14 million to Mr. Thompson, a former death row inmate. Me. Thompson spent “fourteen years on death row for a crime he did not commit because prosecutorsfailed to turn over a lab report in a related case.” Mr. Thompson received a new a trial on state post-conviction review. On retrial Mr. Thompson won his acquittal.  Mr. Thompson then initiated the litigation that lead to this split en banc opinion. In other news, Gov. Strickland in Ohio has denied relief denied clemency, despite a recommendation for mercy by the parole board, to Jason Getsy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).