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Hammond: Death penalty affirmed for Georgia inmate

By Tim Cone

In Hammond v. Hall, No. 08-11109 (Nov. 4, 2009) (Carnes, Marcus, Pryor), the Court affirmed the denial of habeas relief to a Georgia inmate sentenced to death for a 1988 murder.The Court rejected Hammond?s Brady claim that the State suppressed its suspicions that the female accomplice who testified for the State against Hammond at trial had been his accomplice in prior assaults. The Court noted that this was not a record of prior convictions, nor ?evidence.?The Court also rejected Hammond?s request to have a shotgun tested in order to show that it was not the murder weapon. The Court noted that this request comes ?years too late.?The Court noted that an audiotape of witness testimony was suppressed, and that this audiotape might have shown that the witnesses disagreed about who had removed jewelry from the murder victim...continue to full post

Full post as published by Defense Newsletter Blog on November 09, 2009 (boomark / email).