Criminal
Oct. 19, 2012
Appellate lawyers, Supreme Court deal with uncertainty of anti-death penalty initiative
If passed, Proposition 34 would alter not only the lives of the 726 inmates on death row, but those of the attorneys tasked with handling the sometimes decades-long appeals to which convicted defendants are entitled.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Most attorneys would fight tooth and nail to keep a paying decade-long client in the fold. But some appellate lawyers are rooting for a ballot measure that would cast a pall of uncertainty over some of their most consistent cases.
In less than three weeks, Californians will head to the polls to decide, among other things, whether the death penalty will continue to exist in the state. If passed, Propo...
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