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California Supreme Court rules in Friend

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

File under, “And I was making the same point last week at work….”  via Shaun Martin: Sometimes it’s totally easy to see why a defendant has been sentenced to death, and it’s obvious how the murder there is different from other crimes in which the defendant is sentenced to life. Then there’s this one. Maybe I’m jaded after reading all the death penalty cases over the past couple decades. But I don’t entirely see how this one is different than your usual run-of-the-mill case of murder during a robbery.. . . P.S. – Some nice conduct by the prosecutor during closing argument here. My favorite: Noting that the defendant, who was homeless, slept beneath the sidewalk, “living like a mole or the rat that he is...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 20, 2009 (boomark / email).