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Beard v. Kindler Decided

By Steve Hall

The Supreme Court has ruled in the unusual Pennsylvania case.  The AP reports, "Supreme Court tells lower courts to reconsider death penalty for Kindler," via the Los Angeles Times.The Supreme Court will let lower courts consider reinstating a death sentence for a convicted murderer who twice escaped from prison after being found guilty of killing a man who was planning to testify against him. The high court overturned a lower court decision throwing out the death sentence against Joseph Kindler for killing one-time accomplice David Bernstein in 1982. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had said Kindler's lawyer was ineffective and also found problems with the jury instructions. State courts had never decided on Kindler's claims...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).