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Do Page Limits Put A Limit On Justice?


— February 17, 2004

With successful challenges to the death penalty increasing, a Virginia man awaiting execution has come up with an attack that draws on all the others: He says the state’s 50-page limit on post-conviction petitions made it impossible for his attorneys to present all the different arguments that might persuade courts to reverse his sentence.

Details here from The Boston Globe.


With successful challenges to the death penalty increasing, a Virginia man awaiting execution has come up with an attack that draws on all the others: He says the state’s 50-page limit on post-conviction petitions made it impossible for his attorneys to present all the different arguments that might persuade courts to reverse his sentence.

Details here from The Boston Globe.

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