Litigation
Dec. 31, 2015
9th Circuit impugns Arizona's sentencing
In a contentious en banc ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted habeas review to an Arizona man sentenced to death and found that the Arizona Supreme Court had unconstitutionally barred mitigating evidence in death sentence cases over a period of 15 years.
In a contentious en banc ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted habeas review to an Arizona man sentenced to death and found that the Arizona Supreme Court had unconstitutionally barred mitigating evidence in death sentence cases over a period of 15 years.
The Arizona court wrongly applied the "causal nexus test" between 1989 and 2005, the 6-5 9th Circuit ruling found, a test which bars consideratio...
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