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[quote=Anonymous]Are people following Shinn v Ramirez. Arizona is hell bent on putting a man to death. State prosecutors argue "innocence is not enough" to overturn the conviction. I'm not a lawyer but this doesn't seem right to me. If I'm reading this right the supreme court doesn't care if you had ineffective counsel for a murder trial. This is nuts! Justice Thomas claims that making habeas relief too widely available encourages prisoners to “sandba[g]” state courts by presenting a few claims on state post-conviction review while saving others for federal habeas review if the first ones don’t work out. I mean shouldn't we exhaust all possible options before we put someone to death? 
Also do death row inmates sit on evidence of their innocence and wait until the 11th hour to produce this evidence? As part of the opinion Justice Thomas writes" (1) Federal habeas review overrides the States' core power to enforce criminal law--an intrusion that "imposes special costs" on the federal system....Second, federal intervention imposes significant costs on state criminal justice systems." 
Wow, What is happening to this country.[/quote]

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