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Three New Amicus Briefs in Kennedy

By Corey Rayburnyung

Only two appeared on last Thursday, but now there are five total amicus briefs for the Petitioner.  First up is a brief from Leading British Law Associations, Scholars, Queen's Counsel, and Former Law Lords. That brief is primarily focused on the international consensus concerning capital sex crime statutes.  The second brief is from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  The NACDL brief argues that child witnesses are too often too unreliable to support the death penalty.  The last brief comes from a variety of sexual violence and social work organizations.  This brief makes a lot of the policy arguments against the death penalty for child rape (as I have made before).  Overall, the briefs provide a nice cross-section of the arguments against capital child rape statutes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).