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A Renewed Focus on Consular Notification and Heliberto Chi

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With the clock ticking toward's a 6:00 p.m. death warrant and legal papers filed at the Supreme Court, there is a new focus on the Chi case. At The BLT, Tony Mauro posts, "Supreme Court Weighs Another Texas Execution."What makes Chi's case different from Medellin's, according to lawyer Morris Moon from the Texas Defender Service, is that Chi is covered by a separate treaty between Honduras and the United States, not just the broad-based Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963. The bilateral treaty is self-executing, Moon's brief argues, meaning that once it was ratified, it did not require further action by Congress to enforce its provisions. The Vienna treaty, by contrast, was deemed by the Supreme Court in Medellin v...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).