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: Capital Defense Weekly

last edition of summer 2010

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s edition notes: Leading off this edition are two cases from unlikely suspects.  This past Wednesday the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted habeas relief in Ex Parte Jimmie Urbano Lucero holding “that applicant?s counsel failed to investigate applicant?s background or present mitigating evidence at the punishment phase in violation of Rompilla v Beard.” In Joshua Wayne Andrews v. Commonwealth the Virginia Supreme Court held that where a double murder resulted in four capital murder convictions double jeopardy required a new penalty phase proceeding. The Texas Forensic Science Commission on Friday declined to clear fire investigators of professional misconduct for determining that arson caused a 1991 fire that killed three girls and led to the conviction and execution of Todd Willingham...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).