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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Case in point: Texas v. That case, which involved Texas’ challenge to a regulation that delegated governmental authority to an actuarial group to set standards for Medicaid reimbursement, had been rescheduled twice and relisted six times going into last Friday’s conference. Texas , a capital case from the Lone Star State.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

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From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. I cite a story in the book from Tulia, Texas , where a cop goes out and arrests around 10 percent of the black people in town and frames them for drug crimes that they didn’t commit.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Texas , involving allegations that a racially biased juror, who commented during voir dire that “non-white” races were statistically more violent than whites, served on petitioner Kristopher Love’s capital sentencing jury. . Texas , 21-6001. A short explanation of relists is available here. relisted after the Feb.

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