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By cdw

From the upcoming edition: SCOTUS stay action Cleve Foster v. Texas, No. 10-8317 (1/11/2011) Stay granted on cert sought from this opinion from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on asuccessive state postconviction petition & denial of rehearing. The issue appeals to involve IAC and/or the appropriate remedy for deficient state post-conviction counsel. If you don?t have the brief and want it, hit us up offline. Leroy White v. Jones, No. 10-8367 (1/13/2011) Stay initially granted & then lifted. The apparent question is not whether judicial overrides, like the one that got Mr. White on death row comport, with the Sixth Amendment, but rather trial counsel?s performance during plea negotiations. In favor of the executioner State ex rel Lykos v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 16, 2011 (boomark / email).