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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

Only 11 states report having minimum qualifications for lawyers who represent impoverished people facing a lifetime behind bars, according to the nonprofit Sixth Amendment Center. South Carolina requires just three years of experience in criminal law; Arkansas specifies that lawyers should have handled at least one homicide trial.

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Arizona asks court to approve “Kafkaesque” treatment of due-process claim from man on death row

SCOTUSBlog

South Carolina , which held that jurors must receive such information to rebut an inference that the defendant posed a danger in the future. g), explaining that Lynch constituted a significant change in the law. After a brief rebuttal from Katyal, the chief justice thanked the lawyers. This time, he pointed to Rule 32.1(g),

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Southern Gothic: Alex Murdaugh to Turn Himself in Bizarre Criminal Conspiracy

JonathanTurley

The still unraveling story of Alex Murdaugh, the once powerful South Carolina lawyer, became even more bizarre this week with reports of the arrest of a man, Curtis Edward Smith, 61, accused of shooting him in the head. at the request of Murdaugh. However, the shot only grazed Alex Murdaugh’s head on Sept.

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