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first week of spring edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From this week’s edition: The lede this week, the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Maples v. Thomas. The cert petition is here. The Constitution Project’s amicus brief in support of the case is also available.  As Adam Liptak notes “Sullivan & Cromwell, had agreed to represent Cory R. Maples, a death row inmate in Alabama, without charge. When an Alabama court sent two copies of a ruling in Mr. Maples?s case to the firm in New York, its mailroom sent them back unopened and stamped ‘Return to Sender’.? The rest is history. In the news, the Georgia Supreme Court heard argument whether the standard of having to prove mental retardation beyond a reasonable doubt is unconstitutional. The death penalty repeal bills have been filed with a good chance of passage this year in Connecticut, Maryland and Montana, where bills are wending their way through statehouses, repeal efforts also are underway in Florida, Ohio, and Kansas, with much lower chances of passage...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).