The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that lower federal courts were wrong to deny a Missouri death row inmate’s request for new lawyers after his court-appointed lawyers missed a critical filing deadline.
Mark Christeson’s appointed lawyers, Philip Horwitz and Eric Butts, missed the one-year deadline for filing his first federal habeas petition by 117 days. They met him for the first time one month after that deadline had passed.
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