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weekly wrap up

This week’s edition is available and online. From the intro: Leading off this edition is the Third Circuit’s decision in Sharris Rollins v. Horn. In granting a new penalty trial the panel notes that l trial counsel “did not begin to prepare mitigation evidence until 4:30 p.m. on the day before the penalty proceeding commenced, did not attempt to speak with Rollins’ sister who had been present throughout the trial, and did not otherwise seek “[i]nformation concerning [Rollins'] background, education, employment record, mental and emotional stability, family relationships, and the like’.” Further, “there is a reasonable probability that the result of the sentencing proceeding would have been different if the jury had heard the evidence that was presented at the [state postconviction hearing]...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).