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This week’s email edition is now available. From the intro This week finds few new and/or germane reported decisions. Of those scant decisions, none of the noted opinions are defense “wins.” In the news, Governor Phil Bredesen in Tennessee has commuted the death sentence of Gaile Owens to life imprisonment. The Governor noted that Ms. Owens consistently admitted her guilt and that she had accepted a conditional plea agreement for life imprisonment prior to her original trial as the reasons for granting the commutation. The commutation document is here. The Tennessee Governor's Office has issued the news release, "Bredesen Commutes Death Sentence." Also, Robert K. Elder's Last Words of the Executed, with a foreword by the late Studs Terkel, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).