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this week’s edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From this week’s edition: The Utah Supreme Court in State v. Douglas Anderson Lovell leads off this edition.  The issue in Lovell is whether the condemned should have been permitted to withdraw his plea of guilty which, subsequently, resulted in a death sentence. In granting the right to withdraw the guilty plea the Court holds that at the time of the guilty plea Mr. Lovell was not informed of the “presumption of innocence” and “speedy public trial before an impartial jury.”  “When a trial court fails to inform a defendant of his rights, the defendant cannot knowingly and voluntarily enter a guilty plea because he lacks the information required to fully understand this decision.”In other news, the Washington Supreme Court lifted the stay of execution for Cal Brown, after determining that the state’s method of lethal injection was not volative of  the state or federal constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).