Texas judge enforces DEAD-line. Literally. October 5, 2007
Posted by Idta in : Criminal Law, Death Penalty , trackback
A defense attorney’s computer crash proved fatal for one man on death row in September.
Or maybe it was the result of human error after all:
Presiding Judge Sharon Keller closed the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals offices at the regular time Sept. 25, preventing attorneys for inmate Michael Richard from filing an appeal seeking to halt Richard’s execution hours after the U.S. Supreme Court said it would consider a Kentucky case questioning the constitionality of lethal injection.
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