Peter D Keisler

Peter D Keisler

October 13, 2021 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court Should Reject Arizona's Effort to Impose Death Penalty Without a Fair Trial

The criminal justice system cannot function effectively without public confidence in the reliability of jury trials. That means that egregious examples of ineffective trial counsel must have some path to meaningful review. Arizona now urges the Supreme Court to prohibit federal courts from considering the evidence that incompetent state counsel failed to uncover. SCOTUS should not permit it.

By Peter D. Keisler and James M. Cole

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