The first time Dykema Gossett lawyer Patrick Hickey worked on a pro bono death penalty case in Georgia, it was the late 1980s, and he was an associate at the firm. The Georgia Supreme Court ultimately denied the Dykema team's appeal on behalf of convicted killer Robert Newland, who was executed by lethal injection in 2009.
While working on the Newland case, Hickey—by then a Dykema partner and currently the leader of the firm's labor and employment practice—took on another pro bono assignment representing a death row inmate in Georgia. Thanks to a state court judge's ruling late last month, that case has, so far at least, yielded a more positive outcome for Hickey and his client.
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