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"Weighing Reach of Law in Appeals for Clemency"

"Weighing Reach of Law in Appeals for Clemency": Today in The New York Times, Adam Liptak has an article that begins, "In an unusually testy argument, the Supreme Court on Monday tried to make sense of a federal law that provides lawyers to poor inmates on state death rows when their cases move to federal court. The question for the justices was whether the law also requires the federal government to pay those lawyers to present clemency petitions to governors and other state officials."

You can access the transcript of yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Harbison v. Bell, No. 07-8521, at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).