Sentences with phrase «many death penalty cases»

Between 2005 - 2009, prosecutors in Houston County, Alabama had excluded 80 % of blacks who qualified for jury service on death penalty cases.

When asked by a local news station about his tab, Boren said he only took home $ 400,000 — less than he'd normally charge — and the rest of the money went to mental health experts, crime - scene reconstructors, mitigation investigators (who rarely get hired outside of death penalty cases), and DNA labs.

Most death penalty cases, from trials to appeals, rack up a large bill for multiple state agencies.

Spartanburg attorney Michael Morin, who opposed Gowdy in a death penalty case and later worked for him in the prosecutor's office, said Gowdy excelled at appealing to a jury's emotions.

Federal law splits capital death penalty cases into two separate phases: the first determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant, the second - if found guilty - determining their sentence.

In death penalty cases, lawyers are allowed to dismiss any juror who is opposed to the death penalty,» UCLA law professor Adam Winkler told Business Insider in an email message.

And her record in death penalty cases speaks for itself: she has defended some of the most notorious killers in US history - including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, and Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her two young children in a South Carolina lake.

The prosecution, for its part, is expected to try and keep the jury's attention focused on Tsarnaev's specific crimes, according to David Hoose, a Northampton, Mass. attorney and an expert on death penalty cases.

They said that's far too little to hire a lawyer for such a massive death penalty case that could last for years.

Nikolas Cruz's public defender argued that the Florida school shooting suspect should be represented at the expense of taxpayers because he likely doesn't have the assets to pay a private lawyer for his death penalty case.

It's a fact; lawyers have intentionally run up the tab filing as many appeals as possible in order to make the claim that death penalty cases are «too expensive».

While the second is technically true, it should be pointed out that defense lawyers have, for years, intentionally run up the cost to the state by presenting multiple appeals, even based on little to no actual legal cause, in order to drive up the cost of death penalty cases.

Death penalty cases largely mirror life sentences...

«He has tried death penalty cases; he certainly knows political pressure,» Arcuri said.

Kindlon — a Marine who was shot in the head during the Tet Offensive in 1968 and was awarded a Purple Heart — has worked death penalty cases and some of the most recognizable trials in the region.

«Medical ethicists challenge court ruling on lethal injection in Alabama case: Ruling in death penalty case would have a chilling effect on physicians» willingness to serve as experts in capital punishment trials.»

What makes the analysis possible is that data on the potential need for exoneration from death penalty cases come to light more often than it does for other types of criminal proceedings.

Laura Appleman adds this: If the claim of cruel and unusual punishment is used more frequently, and in less dire cases than it has traditionally been used (i.e., death penalty cases), are we weakening the doctrine?

Mr. Lenamon has defended clients in 20 first - degree murder trials and eight death penalty cases.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from Boston.

She would go on to issue a number of controversial decisions, including several death penalty cases, and continued in her entrenched, pro-prosecutor stance.

The resulting reduced turnover of staff attorneys, instead of new law clerks each year, has improved the efficiency of the Court in dealing with complex cases, particularly death penalty cases.

And now, news stories from the New York Times, Austin American - Statesman and the Houston Chronicle are reporting that Keller's actions have galvanized 300 lawyers, prominent defense attorneys and judges among them, to seek changes in the Texas court's filing practices on death penalty cases.

During law school, Oberg worked as a briefing law clerk for the Attorney General Office in the State of Nebraska, where he assisted in the prosecution of criminal appeals, including death penalty cases.

Appointed by the U.S. District Court to represent the first person tried in a federal death penalty case in the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, resulting in a life sentence rather than a death sentence;

Oklahoma also made the news when it suspended a prosecutor for misconduct that occurred in death penalty cases decades earlier.

My heart was pounding so hard you'd have thought it was a death penalty case.

«Resistance Redux,» August, should have stated that J. Tony Serra typically charges $ 25,000 for a death penalty case, knowing he could get nearly 10 times that working as a court - appointed attorney.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from -LSB-...]

The site includes ample collections of links, one specific to death penalty cases and another to more general reference materials.

Under the program, Mexico pays American lawyers up to $ 220 an hour to track potential death penalty cases around the country — watching court decisions and news stories from the moment of arrest, all the way through the last minute scramble before an execution — and advise court - appointed lawyers like Thomason.

Of course, no Supreme Court Term would be complete without some notable death penalty cases.

Gilchrist, who testified as a prosecution expert in 23 death penalty cases, including those of 12 inmates who were later executed, was fired in 2001 for doing sloppy work and giving false or misleading testimony.

Posts offer the authors» takes on matters of government secrecy, individual privacy, women's rights, workplace discrimination and on death penalty cases of interest.

Henry Fonda produced and starred in this faithful adaptation of Reginald Rose's critically acclaimed stage play chronicling the hostile deliberations of a jury in a death penalty case.

Currently, the Supreme Court chooses which cases it reviews, this law would force the Supreme Court to review each death penalty case.

He also managed and presided over a significant number of criminal cases including four death penalty cases and over 25 murder cases.

I have been kvetching a lot, most recently in posts here and here, about the Supreme Court's expenditure of so much time and energy on death penalty cases when there is so much post-Blakely and post-Booker work to be done.

Then in that same death penalty case, the judge held a hearing and ordered the defendant into the courtroom by stating, «Bring his carcass out here.»

In a death penalty case, a lawyer calls him on a phone number provided by the court (which turns out to be the judge's cell phone) with the full knowledge and consent of opposing counsel, to discuss a scheduling matter.

But he was more interested in what was missing from the case: Alito never said it was a death penalty case.

In earlier press coverage, Charles Lane of The Washington Post reported in March 2005 that «Texas Accuses Bush of Trampling Its Autonomy in Death Penalty Case.»

Given the Sixth Circuit's public dissension in recent years, including several sharply worded opinions and allegations of improprieties in death penalty cases, I suspect this case would have received more attention had it not been overshadowed by the close of the Supreme Court's term and several high - profile decisions.»

● What are some examples of jury nullification in death penalty cases?

a death penalty case happened to be going on in the courthouse at the time of the jury rights educational outreach.

That death penalty case, by the way, does not appear to be the Aurora theater shooting trial that is currently in the national spotlight.

IPNO does not take death penalty cases because a death sentenced inmate has a right to counsel during post conviction appeals.

In February 2013 ABA Journal, Layne's pro bono work on capital murder death penalty cases was featured in a cover story.

Brad's notable appellate engagements include a death penalty case won before the U.S. Supreme Court and significant commercial cases won before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the First, Second, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Circuits as well as the Illinois Supreme Court.

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.