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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2660152" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I recently attended a lecture by the magistrate judge and his two clerks/assistants who wrote the order staying the execution. That was once screwed up deal--the guy wrongly convicted of committing the crime was mentally screwed up, and the other guy was a school teacher whose only crime was knowing the other guy. Part of the deal was that their legal counsel was basically incompetent.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, one of the assistants (who still handles death penalty-related motions with that same judge) said that this case was different than all of the others in that he was actually not guilty. Most of them are just trying to get the death penalty overturned on technicalities.</p><p></p><p>They're reasonably certain that they know who did it, but he has been dead for several years (IIRC, he died in prison), so it's not likely that anyone will ever be convicted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2660152, member: 26737"] I recently attended a lecture by the magistrate judge and his two clerks/assistants who wrote the order staying the execution. That was once screwed up deal--the guy wrongly convicted of committing the crime was mentally screwed up, and the other guy was a school teacher whose only crime was knowing the other guy. Part of the deal was that their legal counsel was basically incompetent. Interestingly, one of the assistants (who still handles death penalty-related motions with that same judge) said that this case was different than all of the others in that he was actually not guilty. Most of them are just trying to get the death penalty overturned on technicalities. They're reasonably certain that they know who did it, but he has been dead for several years (IIRC, he died in prison), so it's not likely that anyone will ever be convicted. [/QUOTE]
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