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Superbowl week edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From this week’s edition: A series of hard fought, but  unsuccessful, cases dominate this edition. The best  of this bad bunch include the Six Circuit’s denial of relief in  Ralph Baze, Jr. v. Parker holding the All Writs Act, despite the  statutory right to counsel in clemency,  does not mean federal courts have “the power to ensure acquisition of information against all outside obstacles.”  The Third Circuit in Kelvin X. Morris v. Beard held the district court did not err in holding an evidentiary hearing on trial counsel’s representation of an alternate suspect but erred in granting relief. The Ohio Supreme Court in State v. Andre Williams held that just because a person condemned to death purportedly has severe intellectual disabilities and is without counsel does not justify filing a state post-conviction petition out of time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 07, 2011 (boomark / email).