Friday, February 18, 2022

Rogers v. Dzurenda (9th Cir. - Feb. 14, 2022)

The three different opinions in this death penalty case -- four, if you count Judge Hurwitz twice -- take various different approaches.  But I can summarize the one point on which they all agree in a single sentence:

"Are we seriously appointing lawyers to defend people in death penalty cases who passed the bar four months ago?!"