9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
Criminal
Nov. 16, 2016
Prop. 66 provides long necessary improvements in capital cases
State and federal courts may clash over some of the legislation in Proposition 66, but locally its improvements expediting appeals from convictions and accelerative resolution of petitions seeking habeas corpus are benefits long necessary.
Lawrence Waddington
Neutral
JAMS
Email: waddington1@aol.com
Lawrence is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge and former assistant attorney general for the state of California. He is author of "Disorder in the Court" at Amazon.com. He also edits the 9th Circuit blog, "The 9th Circuit Watch."
Last week voters rejected another attempt to eliminate the death penalty in Proposition 62, but in Proposition 66 the electorate simultaneously approved statutory reform to expedite judicial procedural rules in capital punishment cases.
Interestingly, the enacted legislation initially acknowledged the men and women whose family, relatives and friends had experienced the loss of a victim often killed in a brutal, heinous and vicious crime. Survivors testified at trial to the grief and...
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