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This week’s edition is here.  From the intro. Missed last week, but leading off this edition, is Phillip Anthony Summers v. State from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.  The issue  in Summers on appeal revolves around the trial court’s exclusion of the testimony by a witness that he ordered the murders for which Mr. Summers was convicted, at least one of the killers told him the details of the murders after it happened, and that the persons who did the hit did not include Appellant. Holding that the “right to a fair trial and to the opportunity to present a complete defense was unconstitutionally violated by the trial court?s wholesale exclusion of the testimony” a divided Court holds that the trial court erred in excluding the testimony...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 10, 2010 (boomark / email).