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A Lawyer Known Best for Losing Capital Cases

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Adam Liptak's Sidebar column in today's New York Times.  LINK  It's a must-read.  Here are several excerpts:A good way to end up on death row in Texas is to be accused of a capital crime and have Jerry Guerinot represent you. Twenty of Mr. Guerinot?s clients have been sentenced to death. That is more people than are awaiting execution in about half of the 35 states that have the death penalty. ?People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty,? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said. So what is Mr. Guerinot?s secret? It seems to boil down to a failure to conduct even rudimentary investigations, said David R. Dow, a law professor at the University of Houston and the litigation director of the Texas Defender Service, which represents death row inmates, including not a few of Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 18, 2010 (boomark / email).