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...deficiency as an issue at trial or on appeal. North Carolina adopted a ban on executing the retarded last August. Ken Rose, the executive director of the North Carolina Center for Death Penalty Litigation, says that of the 213 condemned killers in his state, "about 50" have petitioned for retrial on that basis...
...appeals could be granted a new trial. Sounds easy enough, but it's going to be a tough case for defense attorneys to make, Belsky says. "If the first lawyer made a conscious, strategic choice to avoid the issue of the client's mental capacity, there will be no retrial. So of course every prosecutor will try to deflect charges of incompetence and uncover strategic plots in the defense's tactics." There will also be some new hearings - and possibly sentences, but no new trials - for those who are retarded but whose condition, for whatever reason, was never considered...
...having been passed over four times. RESENTENCED. KRISHNA MAHARAJ, 63, British baron of banana imports who spent the past 15 years on Florida's death row for a 1986 double murder, to life in prison; by a court in Miami. Over 100 British parliamentarians continue to press for a retrial, based on what they consider significant errors in the millionaire's original 1987 trial. RESIGNED. ARCHBISHOP JULIUSZ PAETZ, 67, high-ranking Polish prelate, following an "inconclusive" Vatican investigation into accusations, which Paetz denies, that he molested clerics; in Rome. "Not everyone understood my genuine openness and spontaneity toward people...
...DENIED PARDON. LORI BERENSON, 32, the American radical convicted in June 2001 of collaborating with Peruvian Marxist guerrillas and sentenced to 20 years in prison, by Peru's Supreme Court; in Lima. Berenson's parents appealed to the Peruvian President for amnesty for their daughter during last year's retrial of the former student activist, who was convicted of aiding the rebels in their war against the government and given a life sentence by a military tribunal in 1996. SENTENCED. CHALASAI YUGALA, 29, widow of Thai Prince Thitipan Yugala; to six years in prison for fatally poisoning her 60-year...
...club Chelsea (Byrne turns out for lowly Wimbledon) and have previously broken club rules that attempt to restrict the players' drinking and behavior. do you want to be a drunk or a footballer? screamed the Mirror. Indeed, a series of negative headlines involving footballers over recent months - including the retrial of Leeds United stars Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer, in which Woodgate was found guilty of affray - suggests a disturbing trend of players behaving badly. It also questions the ability of the game's authorities to control some of the world's best-paid athletes...