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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From this week’s email edition, which is now available: Leading off this edition is Wellons v. Hall.  In this per curiam opinion, the Court  grants certiorari and remands, in light  Cone v. Bell. As the ABA Journal notes: “[s]ome jurors hearing the case against defendant Marcus Wellons gave the trial judge chocolate shaped as male genitalia and the bailiff chocolate shaped as female breasts. In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court in a per curiam opinion ordered the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider whether Wellons is entitled to discovery and a hearing” in light of the claimed misconduct and Cone. The Court also decided Wood v. Allen,  which is an odd opinion with an odd lineup of Justices. The Justice Sotomayor majority opinion upholding the death sentence in Wood pulled two Justices (Ginsburg & Breyer) that vote for death only sporadically, and the dissent has the usual swing Justice in capital cases (Kennedy)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).