The battle over federal public defenders taking on death-row cases in state court — highlighted by a scathing opinion by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille a few years ago — is still being vigorously fought on several fronts. So far the defenders are winning in federal court.
Most federal judges who have ruled this summer on the propriety of federal public defenders representing death-row inmates in state court have sided with the defenders.
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