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VA Death Row Prisoners Entitled to Appointed Counsel

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Appointment of Counsel, Habeas Corpus, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Row. Location: Virginia.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond
Division, held that death row prisoners were entitled to more legal
assistance than that delineated in Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 97 S.Ct.
1491, 52 L.Ed.2d 72 (1977). Prisoners on Virginia's death row brought a
class action lawsuit ...

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