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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s edition is now available here.  From the intro: By now everyone has an opinion of the Court’s order in In re Troy Davis, and the two opinions respecting that order (Justices Stevens & Scalia).  Specifically, the Court ordered the petition “transferred” to the Southern District of Georgia to “receive testimony and make findings of fact as to whether evidence that could not have been obtained at the time of trial clearly establishes petitioner?s innocence.”  Akin Gump’s  SCOTUSBlog has uploaded the documents that were before the Justices ? the original writ, petition for certiorari, brief in opposition, and amici filings ?  here.  My thoughts, for what they are worth, are here. In the lower courts, a panel of the Fifth Circuit in Eric Lynn Moore v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 24, 2009 (boomark / email).