Publications & Testimony

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Jun 26, 2003

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Lawyers Failed Client, Voids Death Sentence

By a vote of 7 – 2, the U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out the death sen­tence of Maryland death row inmate Kevin Wiggins, rul­ing that his inex­pe­ri­enced attor­neys failed to ade­quate­ly rep­re­sent him at tri­al. Wiggins’ orig­i­nal lawyers made no attempt to inform mem­bers of the jury that sent Wiggins to death row that their client was repeat­ed­ly raped, beat­en and denied food as a child, and that his moth­er burned his hands on the stove as pun­ish­ment. In an opin­ion authored by…

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May 31, 2003

Raymond Wood

The fol­low­ing syn­op­sis was tak­en from the now-defunct www​.lar​ry​ro​bi​son​.org…

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May 01, 2003

State of Missouri v. Joseph Amrine

The Missouri Supreme Court recent­ly over­turned the cap­i­tal con­vic­tion of Joseph Amrine, a death row inmate accused of killing a fel­low pris­on­er 17 years ago. The Court found​“clear and con­vinc­ing evi­dence of actu­al inno­cence that under­mines con­fi­dence” in Amrine’s con­vic­tion (Supreme Court of Missouri, SC84656, April 29, 2003). In a 4 – 3 deci­sion the Court ordered that Amrine be con­di­tion­al­ly dis­charged 30 days from the date the man­date issues in this case unless…

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Apr 01, 2003

Amnesty International: Violation of the Rights of Foreign Nationals Under Sentence of Death

More than 60 for­eign cit­i­zens rep­re­sent­ing 22 nation­al­i­ties are under sen­tence of death in the United States of America (USA). In vir­tu­al­ly every case, the arrest­ing author­i­ties failed to noti­fy detained for­eign­ers of their right to com­mu­ni­cate with their con­sular rep­re­sen­ta­tives. As a con­se­quence, for­eign nation­als con­front­ed by an unfa­mil­iar legal sys­tem were tried and sen­tenced to death with­out the ben­e­fit of the cru­cial sup­port from the…

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