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By Steve Hall

A split Georgia Supreme Court is allowing a long-delayed capital trial to proceed.  Defense attorneys had attempted to strip the death penalty from the case due to funding delays. The Court's 4-3 ruling in Weis v. The State is in Adobe .pdf format. Today's New York Times reports, "Murder Case May Proceed in Georgia," written by John Schwartz. A divided Georgia Supreme Court will allow a capital murder case to go forward despite the defendant?s claims that a lack of state financing for death penalty lawyers deprived him of access to effective counsel and a speedy trial. Jamie Ryan Weis, now 32, was arrested in February 2006 and charged with killing Catherine King, 73, in a robbery. Prosecutors sought the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).