Entries tagged with “Glen Bates”
Policy Issues
Representation
,Military
,Mar 06, 2020
News Brief — Recent Death-Penalty Decisions Through March 6
NEWS (3/6/20): The United States Court of Military Appeals has upheld the conviction and death sentence of Timothy Hennis, following his acquittal in North Carolina on the same charges. The court’s ruling, issued on February 28, rejected Hennis’ challenges to the military court’s jurisdiction to try him for a May 1985 rape and triple…
Policy Issues
Race
,Representation
,Mar 19, 2020
Ohio Death-Row Prisoner Granted New Trial After Lawyer Allowed Racially Biased Juror to Sit on Jury
The Ohio Supreme Court has granted a new trial to a Cincinnati death-row prisoner whose lawyer’s inaction permitted a racially biased juror to serve in his case. In a 5 – 2 opinion issued February 27, 2020, the court ruled that defense counsel for Glen Bates (pictured) had been ineffective for failing to question a juror about her racial bias, challenge her for cause, or exercise one of his remaining discretionary strikes to prevent her from serving in the case, in violation of…