Texas Executes Inmate Who Cited Disbarred Lawyer, Wikipedia Advice in Last-Minute Appeals
Texas executed death-row inmate TaiChin Preyor on Wednesday, ending frantic legal efforts by a Hogan Lovells team and others who pointed to alleged incompetence on the part of Preyor's former counsel.
July 28, 2017 at 06:44 PM
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Texas executed death-row inmate TaiChin Preyor on Wednesday, ending frantic legal efforts by a Hogan Lovells team and others who pointed to alleged incompetence on the part of Preyor's former counsel.
To try to halt Preyor's death by lethal injection, his pro bono lawyers argued that Brandy Estelle, his initial court-appointed post-conviction counsel, was “woefully unqualified,” and served only as a “mouthpiece” for Phillip Jefferson, a disbarred lawyer, who handled the legwork for Preyor's earlier appeals.
Estelle, who came from California, was so new to handling a Texas death-row appeal that she included in her research file on the case a Wikipedia entry write-up titled “Capital Punishment in Texas,” the lawyers argued.
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