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Court will decide case of Va. man on death row

lasvegassun.com — The Supreme Court on Monday granted a temporary reprieve to a death row inmate in Virginia to consider whether lower courts correctly weighed his claim that his lawyer did a poor job of representing him.

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  • CaptainAmerica1, on 05/12/2008, -0/+4"... his claim that his lawyer did a poor job of representing him."

    If this kind of crap doesn't stop, I can see where every person (not just citizens) will have to be represented by a Harvard Law grad who's never lost a case.

    But, I think the Court will rule that if someone has passed the Bar and unless the "poor representation" was egregious, malicious, or somehow intentional, then the plaintiff was represented within "reason of standards" and has no standing.
    • wrmjr, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1During the sentencing phase of the trial, they didn't offer any mitigating evidence. One juror quoted in the Washington Post said they were looking for a reason not to sentence him to death, but the lawyers gave him nothing. That sounds pretty egregious in my book.
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