SCOTUS Grants Stay of Execution

Posted by emily on April 04, 2011
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The Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Daniel Wayne Cook, scheduled to be executed tomorrow.  The stay was granted to allow consideration of Mr. Cook’s pending cert petition on the issue of whether a defendant has the right to effective assistance of post-conviction counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

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