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Supreme Court confronts case of death row inmate whose lawyers quit his case

Publié par Clifford Armion le 30/09/2011

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Robert Barnes

Cory R. Maples was not surprised the day he heard that a court had rejected his challenge to his death sentence. Down here, they're pretty serious about it, he said in a phone call from Alabama's death row.

But the other news left him in a state of shock: the two lawyers from the prestigious New York law firm who had agreed to represent him had quit, quite some time before, without so much as a goodbye.

A clerk attempted to notify the lawyers of the court's action, but the letters were returned unopened; Maples discovered that he had missed the deadline for appealing to the next level.

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Supreme Court confronts case of death row inmate whose lawyers quit his case, La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), septembre 2011. Consulté le 26/12/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/supreme-court-confronts-case-of-death-row-inmate-whose-lawyers-quit-his-case