CA6 Case: Judge: Bad work by lawyers may save clients [Courier Journal]

Judge: Bad work by lawyers may save clients

Overturned death penalties cited

Lawyers might be tempted to offer a weak defense in death penalty cases because many execution sentences are being overturned due to lawyer incompetence, the chief judge of a four-state federal appeals court said in an opinion released yesterday.

Here is link to full text of decision:

Poindexter v. Mitchell
Southern District of Ohio at Cincinnati
7/24/2006  06a0257p.06