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More News From Georgia - The Weis Case

By Steve Hall

Bill Rankin reports, "Court asked to reconsider death penalty option," for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  The Georgia Supreme Court refused to strike the death penalty in the case in a narrow, 4-3 ruling, last month.A recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling could have a ?devastating impact? on the state's public defender offices and the quality of representation of death-penalty cases, a strongly worded motion filed this week contends.The motion asked the court to reconsider its March 25 decision rejecting accused killer Jamie Ryan Weis? bid to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against him because he waited in jail for more than two years without lawyers to defend him. It said the court's majority relied on inaccurate premises in arriving at its decision...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).