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News flash: Common sense appears briefly in courtroom...
A Texas Death Row inmate whose lawyer slept for long portions of his murder trial will either win freedom or a new trial after the Supreme Court refused to intervene Monday. The high court rejected an appeal from Texas authorities, who argued that the lawyer's inattention did not necessarily equal an unfair trial. The Supreme Court's action means that Texas must choose whether to retry Calvin Jerold Burdine or set him free.Of course, since this thing has been grinding on since roughly 1983, it's probably not a large quantity of common sense that's appeared. And I haven't read anything about a ruling to have Mr Lawyer beaten with a stick in public. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-06-03 |
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