California Supreme Court
May 5, 2012
Attorney fights to continue appeal after death row client's death
From beyond the grave, an inmate who died in his cell on San Quentin's death row asked the state Supreme Court this week - through his longtime lawyer - to let his appeal proceed.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - From beyond the grave, an inmate who died in his cell on San Quentin's death row asked the state Supreme Court this week - through his longtime lawyer - to let his appeal proceed.
Dennis Harold Lawley, 68, who died March 11 of natural causes, protested to the end that he had spent 22 years behind bars awaiting execution for a shooting murder in Stanislaus County done by another man....
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