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The High Price of Life

By Steve Hall

That's the title of one article in the current issue of American Lawyer containing the Pro Bono Report 2010.  The article is written by Drew Combs.  LINKIn July 2008 Nixon Peabody signed on to its first pro bono death penalty case ever, representing Thomas Porter, a Virginia man convicted of killing a police officer. And like nearly all capital cases, this one is a heavy lift. It started with a nine-month investigation that included document requests to schools and hospitals and interviews with jurors, court officers, family members, former teachers, and fellow inmates. "These were not situations where you could just Google someone and get an address," says Brian French, a Boston-based Nixon Peabody partner who is working on the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 07, 2010 (boomark / email).