Entries tagged with “Kenneth W. Starr”
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Jan 05, 2022
Former U.S. Solicitor General: Supreme Court Must ‘Uphold the Rule of Law’ that Texas Courts Ignored in Death Penalty Case
A former conservative federal judge and U.S. Solicitor General has called on the United States Supreme Court to vacate a ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) that allowed a Texas death sentence to stand in the face of an earlier Supreme Court ruling that defense counsel had unreasonably failed to present a “tidal wave” of “compelling mitigating evidence.” Kenneth W. Starr (pictured), who was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by…