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| 15 Ex-Judges Try to Halt Missouri Execution |
| By newser.com- Rob Quinn |
| Published: 10/28/2014 |
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(Newser) – Mark Christeson is scheduled to die in Missouri at a minute after midnight tomorrow, but no fewer than 15 former state and federal judges are seeking a stay of execution on the basis that his lawyers were terrible. The two court-appointed public defenders who represent Christeson were 117 days late in filing a federal appeals petition, leaving him as the only death row inmate in Missouri who hasn't had a chance to challenge his sentence in federal court, reports the Guardian. In a brief filed with a federal appeals court, the ex-judges accused the lawyers of "apparent abandonment and misconduct," noting that the lawyers can't now seek a federal review without confessing their own misconduct. Read More. |
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