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10 Aug 2008, 7:13 am
The argument is similar to the one raised earlier this week by Mexican-born Jose Medellin, who was executed late Tuesday night for his part in a gruesome gang rape-slayings of two teenage Houston girls 15 years ago.And:Honduras said it would take all necessary measures to protect the lives of the 12 U.S. prisoners in Honduran prisons after local media reported they could be attacked in revenge. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 3:17 am
Supreme Court, however, in the Medellin vs. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 9:00 pm
  Cameron Kinvig, an attorney with a self-described "conservative judicial and legal philosophy" suggests that whether to execute Jose Ernesto Medellin is purely Texas' business. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 12:37 pm
The first of the Mexicans, Jose Medellin, is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Aug. 5 for taking part in the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 8:21 am by Steve Hall
But in 2008, when one of the 51, Jose Ernesto Medellin, attempted to avoid execution by invoking the consular treaty and the international court’s judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that the treaty was not “self-executing” and was unenforceable in the absence of congressional legislation. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 9:14 am by Steve Hall
In 2008, in a separate Texas case, Jose Medellin was executed after conviction for murder, even though his lawyers raised the Vienna Convention issue as well. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 6:00 am
The Medellin case constitutes a serious setback to those who would argue that the Supremacy Clause, Article VI, cl.2 of the US Constitution, means what it says: "Treaties . . . shall be the supreme Law of the Land. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 1:04 pm
  The question arises whether the failure to advise Jose Ernesto Medellin of this right is sufficient to overturn his conviction for the strangling murder and gang rape of two teenage girls in Houston in June 1993. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 3:06 pm
The argument is similar to the one raised earlier this week by Mexican-born Jose Medellin, who was executed late Tuesday night for his part in a gruesome gang rape-slayings of two teenage Houston girls 15 years ago.And:Honduras said it would take all necessary measures to protect the lives of the 12 U.S. prisoners in Honduran prisons after local media reported they could be attacked in revenge. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 9:21 am
Yesterday, the International Court of Justice directed the United States to take "all measures necessary" to prevent the executions of Jose Medellin and four other Mexican nationals on Texas' death row pending that court's final decision on Mexico's request last month for an interpretation of the so-called Avena judgment. [read post]
1 May 2007, 1:06 am
The state wants to go ahead with the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin despite a ruling from the International Court of Justice in The Hague that the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated the 1963 Vienna Convention because they were denied legal help available to them under the treaty. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 7:10 am
   In the specific case, Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin, convicted in state courts of murder, had sought to rely on the Vienna Convention. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 9:31 pm
".Looking ahead, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Ex Parte Jose Ernesto Medellin holds that President Bush was powerless to force the Texas judiciary to disregard its rules of procedural default to consider on the merits a Mexican national's Article 36 Vienna Convention claim. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 3:07 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  Also, by way of disclosure, I know Ted Cruz and worked with him on the case of gang-rapist/murderer Jose Medellin. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 12:59 am
Bush wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Jose Ernesto Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 3:16 am
The motion of respondents to dismiss the writ ofcertiorari is denied.06-984 MEDELLIN, JOSE E. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 8:14 pm by The Book Review Editor
This edited volume is devoted to some of the most momentous international law issues faced by successive State Department Legal Advisers dating back to the 1970s. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 3:10 am
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) hopes to zero in on money launderers with computer programs capable of spotting suspicious movements of electronic money.In a high-tech game of cat and mouse, the Justice Department said last week that it had found and triggered the freezing of $60.1 million in bank accounts in five countries that contained the personal income of Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, a leader of the Medellin cartel. [read post]