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Medellin update

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via the SCOTUSBlog In what may be the last round of legal arguments on Texas? scheduled execution at 7 p.m. Tuesday of Jose Ernest Medellin, attorneys for the Mexican National told the Supreme Court that if he is put to death, ?the world will have every reason to question? the U.S. government?s commitment to treaty obligations in general. A reply brief, filed Monday evening, is here, and a new appendix is here. Seeking to keep the Court?s attention focused on the international aspects of the case, in contrast to Texas? emphasis on its sovereign power to enforce its criminal laws, Medellin?s counsel said the execution would run counter to the design of the Constitution itself ? a design his lawyers said was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in its most recent ruling in Medellin v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).