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Fourth Circuit Grants Habeas Relief for Death Row Prisoner Because Trial Court Excluded Expert Testimony Defendant Represents Low Risk of Violence in Prison

Loaded on March 15, 2019 by David Reutter published in Criminal Legal News April, 2019, page 20
Filed under: Appeals, Habeas Corpus, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Row. Location: United States of America.

by David Reutter

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the denial of habeas corpus relief to a death row prisoner. The Court held that where the jury’s only choices were life in prison without parole or death, the exclusion of expert testimony that the defendant “represents ...

 

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