Supreme Court halts Missouri execution for ineffective assistance of counsel
By Addison Morris on Oct 29, 2014 03:20 pm[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Tuesday halted [text, PDF] the execution of Mark Christeson, a Missouri man convicted of killing a woman and her two children, pending the determination of whether the 35-year-old received effective legal counsel. Christeson's attorneys, along with 15 former judges, on Monday asked [JURIST report] the Supreme Court to block his execution, claiming that mistakes were made by his former attorneys, which led him to lose his opportunity to appeal his case to... +read more
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