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News Coverage of the Amicus Brief in Green

By Steve Hall

The amicus brief filed with the CCA is in Adobe .pdf format. The AP report by Juan Lozano is, "Group wants Texas death penalty hearing to resume," via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. An alliance of nearly 60 current and former prosecutors, judges, police chiefs, governors, death row exonerees and crime victims filed a legal brief Wednesday asking Texas' highest criminal court to let an unusual hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the state continue. The court hearing in Houston was put on hold earlier this month after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a request by prosecutors to stop it. The hearing, which was halted after two days of testimony, had been ordered by Kevin Fine, a state district judge who is considering a motion in a capital murder case on whether Texas' death penalty statute is unconstitutional...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 23, 2010 (boomark / email).