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Turkey week edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From the intro (pdf/html): Favorable opinions from Texas lead off this edition.  The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a new trial in Ex parte Roderick Dashad Newton due to Brady error; lest you think the CCA is softening, the State conceded error.  In Ex parte Arthur Lee Williams the CCA ordered a remand on multiple  claims of ineffective assistance of counsel arising from in-court trial counsel performance issues, as well as statutory challenge as to whether the Texas statute ?requires a mandatory death sentence if the jury answers the special issues in the affirmative even if the jury believed that applicant did not deserve to die.? In the news, lethal injection remains hot as half a dozen states are no embroiled in the issue of the legality, as practiced, of lethal injection, Steve Hall wraps up all the LI news in greater detail than what time and space here permit...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 23, 2010 (boomark / email).