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: Capital Defense Weekly

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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s email edition is now available in html & pdf.  From the introduction: Several wins are noted this week. Leading of is the Florida Supreme Court’s grant of penalty phase relief in Ryan Thomas Green v. State. The trial court in Green found just two aggravators “avoid arrest” and “contemporaneously convicted of another violent felony” aggravators. The “avoid arrest aggravator” is quickly struck on appeal  as avoiding arrest was not the dominant reason for the murder.  Leaving just one aggravator standing and in light of overwhelming evidence in mitigation (indeed every statutory factor relating to mental health or mental status), relief is granted on proportionality grounds. In other decisions of note, the South Carolina Supreme Court in State v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).