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this week’s edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

I’ve been ordered to trial so this week’s edition is a little lighter than usual.  From this week’s edition: A small cacophony of favorable opinions leads off this week. The California Supreme Court in People v. Superior Court (Pearson) holds that, despite Proposition 115,  section 1054.9 is valid because that proposition governs only pretrial discovery and does not prohibit postconviction discovery of the kind envisioned by section 1054.9 . The Seventh Circuit in Eric Holmes v. Levenhagen, with Judge Posner writing, holds that habeas corpus proceedings must be held in abeyance until the state provides substantial new evidence that Mr. Holmes’s psychiatric illness is sufficiently under control to justify the resumption of these  proceedings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).