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Expanding The Arsenal For Sentencing Environmental Crimes: Would Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Restorative Justice Work?, Carrie C. Boyd
Expanding The Arsenal For Sentencing Environmental Crimes: Would Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Restorative Justice Work?, Carrie C. Boyd
William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
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Tactical Ineffective Assistance In Capital Trials, Kyle Graham
Tactical Ineffective Assistance In Capital Trials, Kyle Graham
American University Law Review
Are defense attorneys sandbagging in their death-penalty cases? In Poindexter v. Mitchell, a habeas corpus case decided in 2006, Chief Judge Danny Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit wrote that by conducting a deliberately defective investigation into mitigation evidence that might otherwise have been presented at the penalty phase of a capital trial, a defense attorney can virtually guarantee that any death sentence the jury returns will be vacated in later proceedings. The likelihood of such an outcome, Boggs wrote, will more than make up for the somewhat greater chance that a jury that …