This volume contains the Post-Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages (QAPL'01).
I watched the post-game proceedings late, on DVR, because I'd been down at the rink, playing a game.
Alabama is nearly alone among the states, she wrote, in that it "does not guarantee representation to indigent capital defendants in post-conviction proceedings".
Syed's attorney, C Justin Brown, said the court has not yet scheduled a hearing to reopen his client's post-conviction proceedings.
"Nearly alone among the states, Alabama does not guarantee representation to indigent capital defendants in post-conviction proceedings," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for a seven-justice majority in Maples v. Thomas.
Sween filed a petition asking the Court to stay Holiday's execution while it considered whether he was entitled to new counsel, since his old counsel had refused "to pursue further available post-conviction proceedings".
The court will consider his lawyers' argument that he had ineffective counsel; they say that in post-conviction proceedings, his initial defense lawyers did not present evidence that Mr. Cook had endured extreme physical and sexual abuse throughout his childhood.
The usual rule in post-conviction proceedings is that a lawyer's mistakes are imputed to the client, on the theory that the lawyer is the client's agent.
There have been defense lawyers in death-penalty cases who slept during trial and others who showed up drunk, but Russell Tucker's lawyer went one worse: Appointed by a North Carolina court to represent Mr. Tucker in post-conviction proceedings, he sabotaged the case by deliberately missing a deadline for filing an appeal of the sentence.
Samsung's lawyers asked Koh to consider whether or not the ruling could be challenged during the post-verdict proceedings.
Post-conviction proceedings are weighted heavily against the defendant, with the courts strongly favoring the finality of the original judgment.
