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The date is automatically stayed for a mandatory appeal to the State Supreme Court.
In military cases, there are several mandatory appeal stages and a military death sentence requires final approval by the president, as commander in chief.
Unlike the great majority of cases, over which the Supreme Court has complete discretion and as to which a denial of review has no legal meaning, the court had to take some kind of action on a mandatory appeal.
Under the law at the time (since repealed) governing the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over appeals from state-court decisions, Baker v. Nelson reached the justices as a mandatory appeal.
In Florida, they even get a mandatory appeal to the Supreme Court.
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If the Texas military court sentences Major Hasan to death, and if the mandatory appeals process exhausts itself without undue delay (Hasan, unlike Sergeant Akbar, probably won't put up much of a legal struggle), President Obama will be confronted with a difficult choice.
The savings would come from putting an end to long death penalty trials that require spending on extra lawyers, investigators and experts for both the prosecution and the defense; protracted mandatory appeals that take a decade or more even for those wrongly convicted; and special prison housing that triples the normal costs.
Because the legislation applies retroactively to many lawsuits and also includes a provision granting mandatory appeals of class-action certification rulings, the bill could cause delays in pending federal-court cases that seek to recover money lost through the corporate scandals at Enron and other large companies.
His case will probably be held up with lengthy, mandatory appeals.
The study adds an extra layer of detail to the standard Trussell Trust data collection approach, which cannot easily disaggregate referrals caused by administrative delays and those relating to problems caused directly by specific government policy changes, such as tighter benefit conditionality, or mandatory reconsideration of appeals against work capability assessments.
It was, his lawyers wrote in the appeal, a mandatory response required under the law based on the years he was imprisoned, not on the amount of money he might have earned if he had been free to work.
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