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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The email edition is now available here. he Supreme Court in Bell v. Kelly, No. 07-1223, granted cert on: “Whether 28 U.S.C 2254, the federal habeas provision governing claims adjudicated on the merits in state court, should be applied  to claims based on evidence of ineffective assistance of counsel the state court refused to consider. ” DPIC notes that “the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Bell v. Kelly, No. 07-1223, where the petitioner challenged a lower court’s dismissal of his claim of ineffectiveness of counsel. Edward Nathaniel Bell stated that his trial lawyers presented no mitigating evidence on his behalf at his sentencing hearing, despite the existence of many sympathetic facts that might have led a jury to vote for a life sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).