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"Death penalty remains big issue in California"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this lengthy new piece at Stateline.org, which is focused on how the issue of the death could impact the election for attorney general in California.  Here is how the piece begins: California?s next attorney general will have a full plate.  He or she will have to deal with a federal court challenge on prison overcrowding, a continuing battle over gay marriage, how to proceed if a marijuana-legalization ballot measure passes, and whether to follow other states in cracking down on illegal immigration and implementing, or challenging, the newly passed health care bill. And all of this is in addition to the ordinary workload of judicial appeals, general litigation, and environmental and consumer protection cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).