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Above: SAC Capital defense attorneys, including Ted Wells (left), leave the courthouse on Friday.

Court-appointed capital defense lawyers here are paid so little that many lawyers refuse the work.

The bill would set minimum standards for capital defense lawyers and provide access to DNA testing.

A leading capital defense attorney wonders if "there's some connection between American dynamism and self-destruction".

From student responsibilities to geographic focus, the clinic has long used an unconventional approach to capital defense.

Mr. Bickell's formal title is emergency applications clerk, but capital defense lawyers have an informal title for him, too.

And we're supposed to pay for the defense?" The state has since then assumed most capital defense costs.

Mr. Burr's litigation focus includes state and federal capital defense litigation, post-conviction and appeals, federal habeas corpus, mitigation, life history and mental health evidence, and defendant competency.

Clive Stafford Smith, a British lawyer who had also been trained in the States, had founded the group to provide effective capital defense in a chronically underserved region.

As an Equal Justice Works Fellow, she developed and implemented a project to incorporate social work students into capital defense teams.

But public pressure and intense media attention can cut both ways, said Stephen Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights and a longtime capital defense lawyer.