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New Scholarship

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

I’ve known for some time Kyle Graham, a Deputy District Attorney, in  Mono County, California was writing Tactical Ineffective Assistance in Capital Trials,  57 American University Law Review 1645 (2008).  The article is a must read for litigators, activists, and public policy types.  The article addresses one of the questions that troubles the debate on the death penalty, in a hopeless case, will a skilled defense attorney intentionally through a trial to “set-up” a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel to save his/her client’s life.   That singular question has haunted judges and policy makers for some time.  Mr. Graham goes a long way to answering it. From that article Are defense attorneys deliberately providing ineffective representation at the penalty phase of capital trials? …...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 11, 2008 (boomark / email).