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: Legal Ethics ForumScalia dissents from denial of cert in case where death penalty was reversed because of defense counsel's decision not to make a closing argument
Dissent here. Of course, Justice Scalia's offering only his side of the analysis, but it's interesting to think about the reasons that a criminal defense lawyer might deliberately waive closing argument -- here, apparently because counsel thought it would result in no closing by the prosecution.
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on December 13, 2010 (boomark / email).
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