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More on crying a river in capital cases

By Douglas A. Berman

There are so many interesting versions of "Cry Me a River" to be found on YouTube (from Joe Cocker to a young Babs), but Time magazine has a different variation in this story about Ohio prosecutors crying a river over defense counsel crying during capital cases.  Here is how the piece starts:Defense attorneys in capital murder cases have often been accused of not working hard enough to help spare their clients the death penalty, in some cases even falling asleep in the middle of a trial. It's not often, though, that lawyers are accused of caring too much ? or at least appearing to care too much ? about the fate of the defendants they represent. But that is essentially what state prosecutors in Ohio are claiming, as they try to ban attorneys from swaying a jury with the power of tears...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).