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By Steve Hall

"CCA Show Cause Order Directs Lawyers to Explain Untimely Filing," is the title of Mary Alice Robbins' report for Texas Lawyer.Two years ago, David Dow and the Texas Defender Service were embroiled in a controversy after a thwarted last-minute attempt to file pleadings for a death-row inmate. Now Dow and Katherine Black, his TDS co-counsel in a different death penalty case, have been ordered to appear before the Court of Criminal Appeals to explain an ?untimely filing,? and they face possible sanctions under one of the CCA?s rules.On Nov. 18, the CCA ordered Dow, the TDS litigation director, and Black, a TDS staff attorney, to appear before the court for a Dec. 2 hearing to show cause for the untimely filed documents in Ex Parte Simpson...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 30, 2009 (boomark / email).