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Colorado Supreme Court Rules on Appeal Time Limits

By Steve Hall

"Colo. Supreme Court: No Two-Year Limit In Death Penalty Appeals," is the title of the Law Week Colorad report written by Matt Masich.Colorado law does not impose a strict two-year limit on death penalty appeals, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.Counsel for Sir Mario Owens, who was convicted of two counts of murder in 2008 and sentenced to death, challenged the statutory scheme for reviewing death penalty cases. Before the sentence was handed down, Owens? lawyers argued that it was unconstitutional for state law to impose a two-year time limit on the completion of all proceedings for post-conviction review, the certification of the record, and all appellate briefing. They also argued that the law unconstitutionally prohibited extensions of any kind beyond the two-year limit...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).