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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From the intro to this week’s roundup: As often happens in midsummer, this week’s edition is light on new opinions and no defense “wins” are noted. In the news, DPIC reports that the “execution date for Texas death row inmate Humberto Leal was postponed after the presiding judge received a letter from a high-ranking U.S. State Department official” “requesting an indefinite postponement while Congress is working on legislation that could affect Leal?s case.”  A recent Field Poll in California that life without parole in California now edges out death as the leading sentencing choice among the California electorate, although a broad majority still support, “in the abstract,” the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).