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Capital Appellate Attorney Positions

By Shari Allison

The Federal Public Defender for the District of Colorado has posted an announcement for experienced appellate attorneys to handle appeals in the Tenth Circuit. Two positions are available.According to the announcement, the bulk of the caseload would be capital habeas proceedings (primarily section 2254) from the district courts in the Circuit. Appointments in the cases will be made by the Tenth Circuit without prior involvement of the Federal Public Defender Office in the underlying habeas proceedings. It is expected that appointments will be solely for the purposes of appeals before the Tenth Circuit and any subsequent proceedings, if any, before the Supreme Court. Due to the differing rates of capital prosecutions in the states and districts of the Tenth Circuit, it is anticipated that these appeals will arise more often from Oklahoma than from elsewhere in the Circuit...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).