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Sunday brunch wrap-up

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

A few pieces making news & stories I wished time permitted me to cover: The Los Angeles Daily Journal notes that the “[s]tate budget woes have put the brakes on the California Supreme Court’s proposal to reform the death-penalty appeal;” The San Jose Mercury News notes the death penalty panel looks at reasons for reversals (this is an evolving story, and I’m trying to find local blogger coverage as I am not in any way familiar with the nuances of the story); Volokh’s Coconspirator David Kopel examines whether there is a “human right” of self-defense; As predicted, the New Hampshire Senate killed expansion of that state’s death penalty 22-2. The uneasy desires by the Executive there to expand capital punishment & the legislative desire to abolish the death penalty appear to be at a loggerhead until at least the next election (more also here); In the more practical realm, Jon Katz examines whether confessions are inadmissible without interpreters’ testimony; Think Outside the Cage looks at a recent filing in federal court in Denver, attorneys for Nathan Dunlap that examines 41 reasons his death sentence should be thrown out, including that his original defense attorneys were ineffective; Skelly Wright looks Idaho prosecutors’ attempts to expand the notice period for captial charging decisions; Simple Justice looks at Lawprof Charles Weisselberg’s new article, Mourning Miranda in the aptly named Has Miranda Outlived Its Usefulness?; Psychology and Crime News‘ Emma B reviews three articles of forensic interest in the March 2008 issue of Personality and Individual Differences; Brian at open source examines “dangerousness among death sentenced capital murderers” as it relates to a new article entitled Secondary analysis of dangerousness among death sentenced capital murderers by Keith Price and Gary R...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).