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By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The U.S. Supreme Court celebrated Tax Filing Day by filing two tax opinions. Lyle Denniston discusses them at SCOTUSblog. This is also National Crime Victims' Rights Week. Perhaps the Court could celebrate that by deciding Baze v. Rees and bringing to an end the de facto moratorium on justice in the worst murder cases that the Court has imposed since last fall. Among the rights of victims of crime and their families is the right to proceedings free from unreasonable delay, and that includes federal habeas corpus. See 18 U.S.C. § 3771 (a)(7) & (b)(2)(A). Speaking of delay, the high court yesterday denied certiorari in the case of Fields v. Ayers, No. 07-8724. Stevie Fields is on California's death row for a "one man crime wave" in 1978. His conviction and sentence were affirmed on direct appeal in 1983...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).