Florida still executes the mentally ill. This bill would stop that.
A Tampa Bay public defender and lawmaker teamed up to draft Senate Bill 1156, which would bar the death sentence for those with severe mental illnesses.
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This 2017 Florida Department of Corrections photo shows the gurney used to execute death row inmates via lethal injection at Florida State Prison at Starke.
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One man, convicted of killing two court bailiffs in Orange County, suffered from delusions that he was Jesus Christ. Another man with a long history of paranoid schizophrenia murdered eight people in South Florida. He believed he was the prince of God.
WORCESTER Three years ago Monday, the lawyer who handles appeals for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. reached out to a colleague in Boston to ask about that office’s long-running conviction integrity unit.
“We have to get something going here,” the Worcester prosecutor, Jane A. Sullivan, wrote in an email just before 1 p.m. on April 19, 2018.
Pineiro alleged that police in those units routinely use excessive force, lie in reports, exhibit racial animus and fabricate evidence, and that Early was violating defendants’ rights by failing to inform them of officers whose credibility was suspect.
Records obtained by the Telegram & Gazette show that Early would, within a month of receiving Pineiro’s complaint, assign a prosecutor to look into its claims and add a section to his website referencing a “Litigation Integrity Division.”
Can opening-the-door evidence doctrine violate the confrontation clause? SCOTUS will decide
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether trial testimony for a criminal defendant can open the door to rebuttal evidence that would otherwise be barred by the confrontation clause.
The court agreed to decide the issue in the case of Darrell Hemphill, who was tried for murder in New York after another defendant was tried for the same crime, according to the cert petition.
Hemphill had contended that the other defendant was the perpetrator. SCOTUSblog previously covered the cert petition here.
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Sacco urges Murphy to sign bill eliminating mandatory minimum sentences
The governor will have to act soon, facing resistance from county prosecutors ×
Sacco wants to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for official misconduct.
Legislation that would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for a number of nonviolent offenses has been awaiting a decision from Gov. Phil Murphy.
Currently, courts are required to sentence a person to a minimum length of time in prison if they are convicted of a crime with a pre-determined mandatory minimum. According to the state, New Jersey has the nation’s largest disparity in incarceration rates among Black and white individuals, at a jarring 12 to 1 ratio.
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