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Initial News Coverage of Snyder v. Louisiana

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Todya's earlier post on the decision in Snyder v. Louisiana (06-10119) is here.  The opinion is here.  More on Batson v. Kentucky, via Oyez, is here. In the New York Times David Stout reports, "Justices Overturn Louisiana Death Sentence."The Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction and death sentence of a Louisiana man who killed his estranged wife in a jealous rage, finding that the trial judge ?committed clear error? in excluding black jurors from the trial. By 7 to 2, the court ruled in favor of Allen Snyder, whose case came before the justices for the second time last December, two years after they had sent it back to the Louisiana Supreme Court and told that tribunal to consider whether the jury selection had been tainted by racial bias...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).