In addition to the parties’ briefs, you can now access here the webcast of the Sixth Circuit argument today in the complicated federal habeas case in which an Ohio death row prisoner is challenging the Ohio state court proceedings that resulted in his death sentence for a murder committed in Summit County, Ohio in the…

Class ended on Thursday when we were getting to the interesting issue of judicial override of jury recommendations in capital cases.  Though many capital statutes (including Ohio’s) allow a judge to override a jury’s recommendation of death, only four states permit a judge to to override a jury’s recommendation of life.  These states are Alabama,…