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final edition of 2010

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s edition marks the end of 2010 including much good news from the year end DPIC report: Leading off this edition are two opinions from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. In, Kenneth Eugene Smith v. State, a judicial override to death, a remand is ordered where the?trial court . . . failed to address the allegations? submitted in Mr. Smith?s amended petition for relief. In  Demetrius Avery Jackson, Jr. v. State, another judicial override to death, a remand is ordered for the trial court to conduct a Batson hearing in light of substantial allegations that race based peremptory challenges infected jury selection. The annual year-end report by DPIC is out. “The death penalty continued to be mired in conflict in 2010, as states grappled with an ongoing controversy over lethal injections, the high cost of capital punishment, and increasing public sentiment in favor of alternative sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 28, 2010 (boomark / email).