CA10: District court should hold evidentiary hearing to determine whether trial counsel should have offered evidence of the defendant’s intellectual disability in death penalty case
Last week, the Tenth Circuit issued a 95-page opinion in Harris v. Sharp, a death penalty case from Oklahoma. The defendant went to his estranged wife’s workplace and fired gunshots, killing her boss, Merle Taylor. Diana Baldwin had this story … Continue reading
Posted in Opinions and Analysis, Tenth Circuit
Tagged Death Penalty, Harris v. Sharp, Ineffective Assistance, Judge Robert Bacharach
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