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New Hampshire State Supreme Court Sets Death Penalty Review Standard

By Steve Hall

The ruling in New Hampshire v. Michael Addison is available in Adobe .pdf format. The AP report is, "NH court sets standards for death sentence review," by Lynne Tuohy, via the Nashua Telegraph. The New Hampshire Supreme Court said it will review the fairness of Michael Addison?s death sentence against cases in other states in which a police officer was killed in the line of duty.The court?s ruling sets the groundwork for deciding whether Addison becomes the first person executed in New Hampshire since 1939. Addison is on death row for gunning down Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs four years ago as Briggs attempted to arrest him on robbery charges.Addison?s lawyers said they will ask the court to reconsider its ruling, saying the test devised by the justices excludes the only other New Hampshire capital case in decades to go to a penalty phase ? that of murder-for-hire convict John Brooks...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).