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News Coverage of Holland v. Florida

By Steve Hall

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The Holland v. Florida opinion is in Adobe .pdf format.  The ScotusWiki file, with all briefing, is here. Tony Mauro writes, "Justices deliver rare victory to death penalty defendants," for National Law Journal.The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sympathized with a Florida death row inmate whose lawyer missed a deadline for his habeas appeal and failed to communicate with him for years despite numerous written pleas for help. By a 7-2 vote in Holland v. Florida, the Court said that the lawyer's misconduct may entitle convicted murderer Albert Holland to "equitable tolling," or a delay in what otherwise would have been a one-year statute of limitation for filing the appeal under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).

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