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Henry Weinstein reports, "Most state D.A.'s silent on death penalty reasoning," in today's Los Angeles Times.Three-quarters of California's elected district attorneys refused to disclose how they choose defendants to face the death penalty, according to a report slated for presentation at a public hearing in Los Angeles today. In a report to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, which is examining how the death penalty is applied in California, Pepperdine law school professors Harry M. Caldwell, Carol Chase and Christine Goodman said only 14 of the state's 58 counties agreed to provide detailed answers to questions about the selection process. Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley got high marks for his careful responses, but district attorneys in many large counties that frequently seek the death penalty -- including Orange, Riverside and San Diego -- submitted no answers, despite repeated entreaties by the professors and their research assistants, according to the report...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).