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5 Mar 2007, 10:31 pm
It appears the county attorney in Maricopa County has forgotten that part of the job description. [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 7:35 am
Thomas, the county attorney, has nearly doubled the number of times that the office has sought the death penalty, even though the number of first-degree murder cases prosecuted by the county has remained more or less the same for a decade. [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 5:41 am
Maricopa county already has an imbecilic sheriff who likes to make inmates wear pink underpants. [read post]
3 Mar 2007, 12:02 pm
The county must furnish lead attorneys for inmates who don't have one, provide lawyers for capital cases in the pipeline and craft a plan to avoid a future crisis, ruled Presiding Criminal Judge James Keppel of Maricopa County Superior Court. [read post]
3 Mar 2007, 5:37 am
From The Arizona Republic:County agencies have until Wednesday to come up with a plan to provide lawyers for defendants who face the death penalty, a judge ruled Friday.The county must furnish lead attorneys for inmates who don't have one, provide lawyers for capital cases in the pipeline and craft a plan to avoid a future crisis, ruled Presiding Criminal Judge James Keppel of Maricopa County Superior Court.The ruling brought prosecutors and legal-defense… [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 8:15 am
In 2006, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas... [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 6:30 am
The Arizona Supreme Court has asked a task force to figure out how to handle the incoming tide of Maricopa County cases. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 5:25 am
From The Arizona Republic:Maricopa County has more pending death-penalty cases than Harris County, the Houston-area jurisdiction that is known as the "death-penalty capital" among critics of capital punishment.In 2006, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas sought the death penalty in nearly half of the first-degree murder cases, and there is an all-time high of 135 capital cases in trial or headed toward trial. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 4:12 am
A Maricopa County judge has ordered an unprecedented March 2 hearing to probe a critical shortage of death-penalty defense attorneys. [read post]
18 Feb 2007, 7:50 am
"When Thomas came in, caseloads started going up much more," said Tempe defense attorney David Cantor.He said the trend started with former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, but attorneys saw a distinct caseload change with Thomas.The number of criminal cases filed in Maricopa County Superior Court has risen every year since at least 2001. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 2:30 pm
This Arizona Republic article provides some details on the fall-out from an apparent move by prosecutors in Maricopa County to pursue every possible capital case: Maricopa County's growing death-penalty crisis will be aired at an unprecedented March 2 court hearing, and key players, including County Attorney Andrew Thomas have been asked to testify. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 5:44 am
From The Arizona Republic:A judge has ordered Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and others into court for an unprecedented hearing on the controversy over a record number of death penalty prosecutions. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 5:34 pm
From AZCentral.com (Arizona):The Maricopa County Attorney's Office, fearing delays in death-penalty cases because there are not enough qualified attorneys to defend those cases, has asked a Maricopa County Superior Court judge to order the county's public defender agencies to make their lawyers take more death-penalty cases.The demand came as response to a defense attorney's request to postpone a murder trial… [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 5:00 am
And it found that some courts, like Arizona's Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, ask potential jurors to list their race to ensure that jury pools represent the community. [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 5:00 am
s Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, ask potential jurors to list their race to ensure that jury pools represent the community. [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 5:00 am
s Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, ask potential jurors to list their race to ensure that jury pools represent the community. [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 5:00 am
And it found that some courts, like Arizona's Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, ask potential jurors to list their race to ensure that jury pools represent the community. [read post]
5 Jan 2007, 4:55 am
The Arizona Republic reports on arguments yesterday in Maricopa (AZ) County Superior Court in a lawsuit against Village of Oak Creek Community Church of the Nazarene which has evicted a state-run charter school from the church premises. [read post]
9 Dec 2006, 6:00 pm
Another rationale I've heard, and this goes to the precedential aspect, is that this is an (some might say "paternalistic") effort on the part of the court to relieve attorneys of the burden of unnecessary reading. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 4:45 am
" Thomas suggested setting up a "Tent City for Arizona" modeled after the Tent City operated by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. [read post]
