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weekly’s out

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

weekly’s up. Porter v. McCollum, a decision from the Supreme Court, leads off this edition.  The Court this term, through its per curiams, seems to be really emphasizing the bright line tests for ineffectiveness.   Counsel failed to adequately investigate his client?s military record and the horrors he had seen in the ugly face of war.  The aftermath of war, as it does with so many soldiers, left him a broken man.  The counsel’s error meant the trial court never heard that story. The lethal injection scrum reheated since the last edition. The Kentucky Supreme Court in Thomas Clyde Bowling v. Ky. Dep?t of Corr. held that the state’s  lethal injection protocol was not adopted in accordance with the Commonwealth?s Administrative Procedure?s Act...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 01, 2009 (boomark / email).