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Criminal juries may not make up the governing law.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights (From public domain.) Around fourteen years ago, at the post conviction/habeas corpus stage, I won a retrial in a Maryland trial court for a man convicted of burglary for breaking into his grandmother's house with the intent to rape her, and of raping her. I then defended my client for the retrial; and ultimately reached a guilty plea agreement involving a plea to the rape count, a dismissal of the remaining count, and no prosecutorial opposition to a release from further executed incarceration time. On the day my client entered a guilty plea anew, the judge released him from any further prison time, without requiring probation.  Without question, if my client committed the crime for which he was convicted, it was heinous beyond heinous...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).