Criminal
Aug. 9, 2014
UC Hastings criminal law expert makes strategic move on dealth penalty policy
A law professor has collected 2,000 signatures on a petition calling for Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala D. Harris not to appeal a federal judge's July 16 ruling that California's death penalty law is unconstitutionally flawed.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO -A law professor here has collected 2,000 signatures on a petition calling for Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala D. Harris not to appeal a federal judge's July 16 ruling that California's death penalty law is unconstitutionally flawed.
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney of Santa Ana held that the glacial pace of executions in the state violates the Eighth Amendment...
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