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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s email edition is now available. From the intro One opinion of note is had this edition. The Ninth Circuit in Earl Lloyd Jackson v. Brown upholds the district court’s grant of relief as to Brown’s death sentence and the special circumstances findings. The district court granted relief on the basis of its finding that the State presented false testimony regarding whether jailhouse snitches received benefits for testifying against Jackson. The state conceded the grant of capital relief, but argued unsuccessfully to get the special circumstances reinstated in light of the suppression of favorable evidence, including that the prosecutors at trial didn’t know of the perjured testimony, as well as an odd argument that Teague bars relief under these circumstances as, it asserts, Kyles v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).