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The price of justice?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Maybe  I’m old fashion,  I believe in fair fights.  No place requires a fair fight more than a trial, especially when a man’s life is on the line.  DPIC lays out well the story of Khan Dinh Phan whose story appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution over the weekend.  Long story short, the prosecution wants to stack the deck in favor of death: Georgia is seeking the death penalty for Khan Dinh Phan, a Vietnamese immigrant charged with murder, but after four years the case has not come to trial because the state has failed to adequately fund the defense.  Phan’s defense attorneys are asking the Georgia Supreme Court to dismiss the death penalty part of the prosecution.  “You don’t have to have the death penalty in Georgia, but if you have it, the Constitution requires you must provide the defense the basic tools to prepare,” said Chris Adams, one of Phan’s attorneys...continue to full post

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