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| Lawyer Wants To Stay On Inmate's Case |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/29/2002 |
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Attorneys for a veteran lawyer who was barred from representing a death row inmate because he was not on an approved list asked an appeals court to have their client reappointed. Since 1987, Robert McGlasson has represented death row inmate Calvin Burdine in his 15-year battle to get a new trial after his first lawyer slept through parts of his initial 1984 trial. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August that Burdine should be retried because his lawyer, the late Joe Cannon, slept through parts of the trial. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld that order. But last month, state District Judge Joan Huffman refused to appoint McGlasson, an Atlanta capital murder specialist, as Burdine's counsel. Rick Hagen, chairman of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, said it's only fair that McGlasson be Burdine's lawyer for the retrial because he knows the case well and has earned Burdine's trust. ''All we want is a level playing field. The prosecution's had this case for over 15 years,'' said Hagen, who filed the appeal July 15. Burdine, 49, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of his roommate and lover. His retrial is set to begin in October. |
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