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The Weis Case in Georgia - Representation in Crisis

By Steve Hall

Bill Rankin writes, "Supreme Court asked to decide Georgia death-penalty appeal," for today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to hear a case that could decide whether Georgia can afford the death penalty.On Tuesday, lawyers for Jamie Ryan Weis petitioned the high court to consider a recent 4-3 ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court that denied Weis? bid to bar a death penalty prosecution because he sat in jail for more than two years without lawyers to defend him."This case involves the question of whether there is such a complete breakdown in providing counsel for the accused that a fair trial is impossible," said the petition, filed by Stephen Bright, one of Weis' attorneys...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).