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News Coverage of Bell v. Kelly Cert Grant

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The Supreme Court agreed to take the Virginia death penalty case yesterday, as noted in this post. AP reports, "Court will decide case of Va. man on death row," via Google News.The Supreme Court on Monday granted a temporary reprieve to a death row inmate in Virginia to consider whether lower courts correctly weighed his claim that his lawyer did a poor job of representing him. Edward Nathaniel Bell, 40, had been facing execution in July for murdering a police officer. Bell asked the court to step into his case, arguing that he could have been spared a death sentence if his lawyer had done a better job of representing him during the sentencing phase of his trial. His execution was previously delayed by the Supreme Court's consideration of lethal injection procedures...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 13, 2008 (boomark / email).