Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
Beginning February 5, 2018, Terence Lenamon will be in a Miami Dade courtroom in another fight against the death penalty, this time in a notorious capital case involving a member of the Terrorist Boyz named Frantzy Jean-Marie.
Capital Case Trying Charges From Over a Decade Ago
It’s a complicated defense for many reasons, not…
Terry Lenamon just finished a six week trial in Florida, where state prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for Vernon Dwayne Stevens. Mr. Stevens, however, will not face capital punishment: Terence Lenamon’s arguments for mitigation were successful and a life sentence was reached.
For details, check out the following documents in the Terry Lenamon Online…
Terence Lenamon filed the following motion, his co-counsel David Markus argued the motion, and now Florida Circuit Court Judge Victoria Sigler has granted their motion regarding the unconstitutionality of Florida Statute 27.5304 – striking the law as unconstitutional.
Here is the Order (read the Motion with its briefing online in the Terence Lenamon Online
He is arguing that the Florida Statute 27.5304 not only establishes how private court-appointed counsel are…
Terry Lenamon is currently in trial defending another high profile defendant, Joshua Fulgham, who is accused of killing his wife Heather Strong (read the Wikipedia article on her murder here). The trial is taking place in Marion County, Florida.
For blog readers who follow Terry’s trial work, here are some links to the day’s…
We’ve been monitoring the case of Alabama Death Row Inmate Cory Maples, who had very bad indigent defense counsel even though they were a swanky New York law firm with a prestigious reputation.
For details, read our earlier post on Mr. Maples and how his mother saved the day – and probably his life.
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Cory Maples sits on Death Row over in Alabama, after having obvious and serious errors made by both his trial and appellate counsel which included some pretty big names in the legal industry.
And by "obvious and serious," we really mean blatant, ludicrous, and shameful treatment of an indigent defendant by, among others, one of…
Today, Maura Dolan of the Los Angeles Times provides excellent reporting of the indigent defense crisis as it impacts death penalty appeals in California. Read the article, "Lack of funding builds death row logjam," in its entirety here.
It’s a topic that gets covered periodically by the national media: a cruel reality…
Over in Lee County, Robert Dunn has been arrested for the crime of shooting and killing his wife, Christine Lozier-Dunn, inside of a Cape Coral, Florida, daycare center, Bobbie Noonan’s Child Care, on January 25, 2008. He’s facing trial for first-degree murder, first-degree armed burglary, and child abuse, and since Mr. Dunn couldn’t afford an attorney he’s been appointed…
Yesterday, without comment, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition filed by Georgia Death Row inmate Jamie Ryan Weis.
This is shocking.
This is very bad news. We’ve written about the Weis case before, including links to the amicus brief filed by a stellar list of Georgia legal scholars, fighting for…