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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

I’m in trial.  I am unexpectedly going in to the second week of trial on what everyone thought was a quick one day trial scheduled for the end of the month.  Still not sure why the case got moved up to the first of the month.  I suspect the weekly will run.  After the jump is the scratch  version of the cases in that edition: ??? Week of January 4,  2010: In favor of the Accused or Condemned (initial list) James Harrison v. Gillespie,2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 139 (9th Cir 1/5/2010) (dissent) Trial court erred in dismissing the first jury prematurely where it appeared the jury returned a noncapital verdict. “We conclude that there was no manifest necessity to declare a mistrial without first polling the jury in order to determine whether Harrison had been acquitted of the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).