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finally, the email edition is available

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s email edition is available, warning in advance, it is beefy. Several wins are noted this edition. With names as American as Pepin, Tassin, Cole/Abdul-KabirMoreno, Mata, Kerr, Harper, Ramirez, & Harlow the “wins” this edition run the gamut from pretrial evidentiary rulings to methods of execution to plain old fashion jury instruction error prosecutorial suppression of favorable evidence to just plain bad lawyering. Nebraska has effectively ended its death penalty, for now, in State v. Raymond Mata. The Nebraska Supreme Court in Mata ruled the electric chair amounts to cruel and unusual punishment under the state constitution. Nebraska was the only state in the U.S. that uses the electric chair as its sole execution method...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).