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weekly’s finally out

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Weekly edition is out here: Two favorable cases are noted since the last edition.  In Ex parte Brian Edward Davis the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted penalty phase relief as “[t]he nullification instruction given to applicant?s jury was not a sufficient vehicle to allow jurors to give meaningful consideration and full effect to the mitigating evidence presented by applicant.” In Shonelle Andre Jackson v. State,  a case missed in the last edition, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals remanded  for “the circuit court to again consider Jackson’s juror-misconduct allegations” as the trial court improperly ruled the claims barred. DPIC notes that “Virginia has not had a death verdict from a jury since March 2008, the longest stretch of time without a death verdict since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1970s...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 25, 2009 (boomark / email).