Summary
The best course in addressing supposed delays in death penalty appeals would be to allow the courts to continue to conduct thorough reviews and to apply appropriate constitutional and statutory protections.
But if the Utah Legislature is convinced -- as Utah's Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is -- that the state Constitution should be amended to address delays in capital cases, it should consider the amendment proposed by Utah attorneys Troy Booher and Michael Zimmerman, former chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court.See the full content of this document
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Leave Capital-Appeals Laws Alone
Booher and Zimmerman have proposed to the state Constitutional Revision Commission an amendment th...
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