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Supreme Court Sends Texas Case Back to CCA

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Texas AP writer Mike Graczyk has, "Dallas County death row inmate's case sent back to state court," via the San Antonio Express-News.The U.S. Supreme Court threw a lifeline Monday to a Texas death row inmate condemned for a robbery 15 years ago at a suburban Dallas sporting goods store where two employees were fatally bludgeoned with a hammer and nearly decapitated. The high court sent the case of Joseph Lave back to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for additional review after his lawyers argued Lave's trial attorneys weren't able to cross-examine a co-defendant and challenge damaging statements from him. The co-defendant, Timothy Bates, refused to testify for Lave, and a police officer from the witness stand told jurors at Lave's trial of his interview with Bates...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).