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More on Collin v. Pinholster

By Steve Hall

The AP reports, "Court to decide whether to reinstate death penalty," via Google News.The Supreme Court will decide whether a convicted double murderer should have his death sentence reinstated.The high court on Monday agreed to reconsider a lower court decision on the fate of Scott Pinholster.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out Pinholster's death sentence because his lawyer did not give a jury evidence of mental illness during the penalty phase of his murder trial. The San Francisco-based court said that evidence might have persuaded the jury to reject the death sentence. Collin v. Pinholster will be heard in the Supreme Court's next term, which begins in October.

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).