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An 11th Circuit Case Gets Needed Attention - UPDATED

By Steve Hall

National Law Journal has posted the OpEd, "11th Circuit not playing by the rules in Alabama death penalty case," by Gerald Kogan and Mark White.  Kogan,  a former Florida Supreme Court Justice, and White, the former Texas Governor and AG, co-chair the Constitution Project's Death Penalty Committee. Even for those of us committed to the use of capital punishment, there are times when a court's intervention has us breathing a sigh of relief. We don't like hearing that a lawyer has slept through large portions of his client's death penalty trial. That a judge was literally in bed with the prosecution during a capital case makes us queasy. And when we read that jurors deciding the most serious of cases are buying gag gifts for the judge ? well, we are quietly relieved when our high court steps in and wags its judicial finger...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).