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Related: About this forumU.S. Supreme Court rules Texas death row inmate had an ineffective lawyer, orders new review
by Jolie McCullough, Texas TribuneThe U.S. Supreme Court has again ruled against Texas top criminal court in a death penalty case, the latest in the high courts repeated dismissals of Texas decisions against death row inmates.
In a 19-page opinion on a 6-3 ruling Monday, the justices sent Terence Andrus case back to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for further review. They said the court must again examine whether the abundant amount of mitigating evidence not presented at Andrus trial should warrant a new punishment trial to decide if he should get lethal injection or life in prison without parole. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented.
Andrus was sentenced to death in 2012 for two 2008 shooting deaths in Fort Bend County during an unsuccessful carjacking attempt. Last year, the Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the trial courts recommendation on appeal that Andrus get a new punishment trial because his lawyer failed to raise potentially sentence-changing evidence.
The Supreme Court ruling focused on the evidence that could have been used to sway the jury from a death sentence. This includes his mothers drug addiction and prostitution, his role as caretaker for his siblings when his mother would disappear, his own drug use, multiple suicide attempts and a diagnosis of psychosis.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/15/supreme-court-texas-death-penalty/
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U.S. Supreme Court rules Texas death row inmate had an ineffective lawyer, orders new review (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jun 2020
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RandySF
(57,588 posts)1. Holy shit!
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. Holy shit, indeed! n/t
-Laelth
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)2. What happens to the ineffective lawyer?
Is s/he sanctioned in any way?