Appellate and Post-Conviction Review (s5a)
Appellate and Post-Conviction Review
This session examines the appellate and post-conviction review process once a person has been sentenced to death at a trial. The process is described as well as limits on review, procedural obstacles to consideration of issues, burdens of proof, standards of review, when cases must be reversed, and when even a constitutional violation may be found to be “harmless error” not requiring reversal.
Appellate and Post-Conviction Review (s5a)
This session examines the appellate and post-conviction review process once a person has been sentenced to death at a trial. It describes the various stages of the process as well as limits on review, procedural obstacles to consideration of issues, burdens of proof, standards of review, when cases must be reversed because of errors, and when even a constitutional violation may be found to be “harmless error” so that a conviction and death sentence may be upheld despite it.
Class readings:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s7r....cjz1xfv027oa/AAAfFrD
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s7r....cjz1xfv027oa/AADsEQE
