April 21, 2003

US Supreme Court to hear appeal on Texas Death Row case from 1980

"The paramount importance of adequate defense counsel in capital cases cannot be overstated," the Sessions' [Former FBI Director William Sessions, also a former federal judge in Texas, joined other former judges and a prosecutor to file a 'friend of the court' brief] filing said. "When a criminal defendant is forced to pay with his life for his lawyer's errors, the effectiveness of the criminal justice system as a whole is undermined."
[full story] Posted by Tiger at April 21, 2003 06:20 PM | TrackBack
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