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too slow to run this edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

As happens most years at this time, we’ll not run this week. Two cases from the Alabama Supreme Court will likel lead off the next edition,Ex parte Kenneth Eugene Billups& Ex parte Jimmy Lamar Killingsworth, Jr.   In both cases the trial judge overrode the jury’s recommendation, 7-5, to death. In Billups the Court holds that the introduction “the trial court erred by failing to limit the jury’s consideration [of certain Rule 404(b) evidence] to only those purposes for which the evidence was purportedly offered by the State.” In Killingsworth  friends of the victim’s family, who indicated in voir dire she could not be impartial, improperly sat on the jury where the parties apparently removed a juror with a similar name under the mistaken believe they were removing the biased juror...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).