Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Getting it right
Commenting on the Court's capital-sentencing decisions today, Michael notes that the 5 Catholic Justices split (1-4) in ruling that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals -- I'm quoting Lyle Denniston -- "wrongly put up a new legal barrier to a death row inmate's challenge to jury instructions in his sentencing." Michael asks, "which Catholic[s] got it right?"
I don't know. (The opinions are here.) I am confident, though, that the question presented -- whether a defendant's pretrial objections to jury instructions preserved for review a particular constitutional challenge to those instructions -- is one to which the Catholic faith does not supply an answer. Do you disagree, Michael?
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2007/04/getting_it_righ.html