Sentences with phrase «handled death penalty»

This summer, changes at the public defender's office resulted in the resignation of a number of attorneys, including two of the three remaining attorneys who handled death penalty cases.

I am pleased to see that some folks over at The Volokh Conspiracy are exploring the Miers» nomination through the lens of criminal justice issues: Orin Kerr speculates here on how Miers might handle death penalty cases, and Juan Non-Volokh notes here how much of the High Court's constitutional work is in the arena of criminal procedure.

Not exact matches

More problematically, it glosses over the question of reasoning biblically with the secular state, an issue much better handled by David Novak and Stanley Hauerwas in Religion and the Death Penalty -

The court of appeals handles all appeals except those in the supreme court's exclusive jurisdiction: challenges to the validity of a United States statute or treaty, the validity of a state constitutional provision or statute, cases requiring construction of revenue laws, the title to state office and cases where the death penalty is imposed.

As a trial attorney, he handled all sorts of criminal cases in state and federal court and he has represented approximately 30 people charged with homicide, including several who have faced the death penalty.

From small claims court to death penalty appeals, our lawyers have handled a wide variety of pro bono matters and are often called upon by local judges to take over pro bono matters on the eve of trial.

A death penalty opponent, Feingold said: «I found a person who actually thought about it deeply, who was troubled by innocent people being sentenced to death, and who gave particular concern to how those cases were handled as a Court of Appeals judge.»

She began her career as a trial attorney with the Office of the Public Defender for the State of Maryland in 1988 and has handled numerous felony trials including several death penalty cases.

«Justices signal dismay at Texas; Decision to hear capital cases may suggest high court questions handling»: The Dallas Morning News today contains an article that begins, «The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear three Texas death penalty cases in its new term, a move that veteran court watchers called the latest signal of the court's increasing frustration with how condemned inmates» appeals are handled by Texas» highest criminal judges and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.»

As an assistant attorney general she handled numerous appeals in the Second District Court of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court, including death penalty cases, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.