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Some Accommodation by Texas ...

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... but not for Jose Medellin.  That's the way Hofstra Law's Julian Ku reads Texas' response to a motion at the Supreme Court by Medellin's attorneys seeking a stay of tonight's scheduled execution.  Ku's post at Opinio Juris is, "Texas Agrees to Sort of Comply with ICJ?s Avena Judgment?But It Will Go Ahead and Execute Medellin Anyway."   Here's a snippet: Almost buried amid the last-minute flurry of litigation over Medellin?s pending execution tonight at 7 p.m. EDT, Texas has made a potentially important but ambiguous concession to the ICJ.  It has agreed to support federal habeas petitions in the future for Mexican citizens arguing that a failure of consular notification had caused prejudice to their criminal conviction and death sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).