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first look at this week’s edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s edition will look at the SCOTUS’s two habeas decisions from last week (Harrington v. Richter & Premo v. Moore), as well as  the decision by Hospira to stop selling a key drug in most states’ lethal injection protocol. From the next edition. SCOTUS Premo v. Moore, No. 09-658 (1/19/11) “Inmate was not entitled to habeas relief under 28 U.S.C.S. § 2254(d) based on ineffective assistance of counsel; it was not unreasonable to find that counsel did not perform deficiently by failing to move to suppress a confession before advising the inmate to plead guilty or to find no prejudice in light of a second, admissible confession.” [via Lexisone] Harrington v. Richter, No. 09-587  (1/19/11) “A judgment granting habeas relief was reversed because the California Supreme Court’s decision on the merits of a habeas petitioner’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment required more deference than it had received...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).