Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases, Volume I: Federal Death Penalty Trials (updated April 2004)

Molly Treadway Johnson; Laural L. Hooper

2004, 59 pages

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This is the first part of a two-volume resource guide for managing capital cases in the federal courts. The second volume covers habeas corpus review of capital convictions. This volume describes the statutes, case law, and policies applicable to federal capital case-management issues such as appointment of counsel, case budgeting, and jury selection, and summarizes procedures judges have used in capital cases at each stage of the proceedings.

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