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More on the Office of Capital Writs

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom posts, "Trying to Restore Integrity to Death Row Defense,"this morning at the Texas Tribune.  There is audio at the LINKBrad Levenson, a deputy federal public defender in California, will lead the first ever Texas Office of Capital Writs starting Sept. 1. His new job will require him to represent Texas death row inmates who claim their trials were botched and that they were wrongly convicted. Texas lawmakers created the office in 2009 after a series of investigative reports and studies of the criminal justice system revealed serious problems with the quality of legal representation for indigent defendants on death row. Some of the lawyers whom judges had appointed to represent capital defendants had no death row experience, some had mental illness, some had abandoned their death row clients, and some of the lawyers chosen by judges were dead...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).