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State Death Sentenced Prisoner Not Entitled to Federally Funded Counsel in State Clemency Proceeding

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Appointment of Counsel, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus, Death Penalty. Location: Oklahoma.

State Death Sentenced Prisoner Not Entitled to Federally Funded Counsel in
State Clemency Proceeding

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held a state prisoner is not entitled
to federally appointed and funded counsel in a state clemency proceeding.
After exhausting federal habeas corpus remedies, counsel moved to
represent and receive ...

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