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Lawyers? Late Filings Can Be Deadly for Inmates

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That's the title of Houston Chronicle reporter Lise Olsen's latest report on capital punishment in Texas.  LINKThree men on Texas? death row ? and six others already executed ? lost their federal appeals because attorneys failed to meet life-or-death deadlines, essentially waiving the last constitutionally required review before a death sentence is carried out. Johnny Johnson, executed in February for a Houston murder, was the most recent: His lawyers missed a federally mandated filing deadline by 24 hours. One of his attorneys made the same mistake in the case of death row inmate Keith Steven Thurmond, a former Montgomery County mechanic now on death row awaiting execution, according to case records. In both cases, the lawyer waited until after business hours on the last day an appeal could be filed and then blamed a malfunctioning filing machine for his tardiness, according to a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion issued last week...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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