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November 23rd, 2009

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Stand Down
- Tonight's Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Debate
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- Death Penalty Trials and Judges
- From New Hampshire - Coverage of Study Commission Hearing
- David Dow on NPR's Fresh Air Today
- Ohio on Pace for Execution State Record
- Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas' LI Protocol
- The Cost Issue in Pennsylvania
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- NEW VOICES: Past President of Prestigious American Law Institute Says Death Penalty "Unworkable"
- Texas Inmate Facing Execution Denied DNA Testing
- NEW VOICES: Medical Society of New Jersey Urges AMA to Oppose Death Penalty
- NEW VOICES: Prosecutors in Texas Cite High Costs and Uncertainty as Reasons for Less Use of Death Penalty
- Resources on the Death Penalty for Communities of Faith
Berman on Sentencing
- Oklahoma legislature still eager to make child rape a death penalty offense
- Australia province to start utilizing community-based "sentencing councils"
- "Would Ending The Drug War Stimulate Economic Growth?"
- Eighth Circuit rejects challenge to constitutionality of Arkansas lethal injection protocol
- Intriguing little Eleventh Circuit ruling on loss calculation and restitution
How Appealing
- "Appeals court: Women wrestlers can sue UC Davis."
- "Georgetown Law's Lazarus Named to New Professorship"
- "Advocates push abortion-rights license plate in Va"
- "Federal investigators explore charges against Roeder"
- "A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer"
- "Originalism and Economic Analysis: Two Case Studies of Consistency and Coherence in Supreme Court Decision Making."
- "No Talking, No Texting, No Tweeting"
- "David Souter to speak at 359th Commencement; Harvard alumnus served nearly two decades on U.S. Supreme Court"
- Eighth Circuit rejects death row inmates' challenge to the constitutionality of Arkansas's protocol for execution by lethal injection
- "Reserving Time for Rebuttal Oral Argument on Appeal"
The Agitator
- The Green Police
- How Many Innocent People Are in Prison?
- Law Enforcement and DWI
- Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
Harmful Error
- Nevada Supreme Court issues opinions
- Nevada Supreme Court issues opinion
- Oral argument calendar: Feb. 11
- Oral argument calendar: Feb. 10
Gamso for the Defense
- Deuteronomy Trumps the Sixth Amendment
- They'd Rather Have Closure
- Dissing the First Amendment
- I've Looked at Trials from Both Sides Now
- Tri-State Roundup
Simple Justice
- The Moral Frustration Of Charging A Fee
- International Criminal Court? No Time Soon
- Retaining The New York Legislature
SCOTUS Blog
- NAMUDNO: Right Question, Wrong Case
- Monday round-up
- The week ahead
- U.S. seeks to end Kiyemba case
- This week on the Wiki
A Criminal Enterprise
- Guantanamo Detainees Flounder as Europe Averts its Gaze
- Louisiana Executes Gerald Bordelon
- “The Numbers Speak”
- Do People Actually Care If the State Executes Innocent Defendants?
TalkLeft
- Monday Night TV And Open Thread
- Charlie Sheen Charged, Court Modifies Protective Order
- Dr. Conrad Murray Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter
- John Murtha, RIP
Grits for Breakfast
- AZ court suppresses evidence from search of TX polygamist ranch
- Index theft categories to inflation
- Odds and Ends
- Border pork wrong priority for federal stimulus funds
Lammers on Crim Law
- Kerr & Wagstaffe: Besmirched and Beslurred?
- Going Back to Limited RSS Feed Footers
- New Additions to Virginia Criminal Cases and Laws
- OMG, How Long Can a Decision Be?
- Don't Sleep With Your Client
The Crime Report
- Blueprints Conference
- Unilaterally Punitive
- Retired NYC Police Officers Report Crime Data Manipulation
- Illinois Cops Fail To Find 800 Missing Chicago-Area Sex Offenders
- Media Frenzy, Photo Op Issues In Charges Against Jackson Doctor
- Holder: Terrorism-Case Critics Shun Facts To Score Political Points
- Mexico Drug War Failing, Nation On The Verge Of “Narco-State”
Defending People
- Accidental DIVERT Coercion
- If Halle Smith Had Been White, Would She Be Alive Today?
- If He’s an Expert, Then So Is My Dog
Executed Today
- 1910: George Reynolds and John Williams
- 1852: Martin Merino, Jesuit assassin
- 1885: George Gibson and Wayne Powers
Fourth Amend Blog
- Fourth Amendment News--CNET News
- MD: Removal of occupants from car is irrelevant if there is cause for stop
- M.D.Ala.: Nexus: Unemployed document forger likely kept stuff to do so in his house
- E.D.Mo.: Officer's use of e-mails in Internet sting case does not state a violation of the Fourth Amendment or any statute
Defense Newsletter Blog
- Green: Counsel Ineffective, But not prejudicially so
- Holmes: Sufficient 1028A evidence
- Jules: 3582(c)(2) Requires Advance Notice of New Information
- Lott: Habeas Petitioner Not Entitled to COA

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Pending Executions
February
18 Robert Bryant Melson* (Ala)
24 Hank Skinner* (Texas)

March
2 Michael Sigala* (Texas)
9 Lawrence Reynolds* (Ohio)
11 Joshua Maxwellc* (Texas)
16 Jack Harold Jones Jr. (Ark)
18 Paul Warner Powell* (VA)
30 Franklin Alix* (Texas)

April
12 Don William Davis (Ark)
20 Samuel Bustamante* (Texas)
20 Daryl Durr* (Ohio)
22 William Berkley* (Texas)

Stays
January
8 Quincy Allen* (SC)(vol)

February
2 Robert Lee McConnell (Nev)
12 Dale Wayne Eaton (Wyo)

Executions
Feb
4 Mark Brown* (Ohio)

* "serious" execution date / (s) stay believed likely / (V) Volunteer / note this list may exclude anyrecently added execution date
(note that none of the Pennsylvania dates listed are likely actual execution dates)
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