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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The email edition is available here Leading off this edition is  what some have called the “stay wars.” The United States Supreme Court this past Thursday in Indiana v. Ahmad Edwards, held that where the mentally ill (but competent) seek to represent themselves at trial a State may require that they instead are represented by counsel.  The very next day, and moments before the scheduled execution of James Earl Reed, a federal district court in South Carolina granted a stay in light of Edwards (Reed had represented himself at trial).  The Fourth Circuit lifted the stay just minutes before the warrant was scheduled to expire and Reed was executed. . The daily blog will have more as details become available. Just days before, in a similar stay battle, Charles Hood caught a break in Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).