The Supreme Court Investigates Apparently Unauthorized Cert. Petition in Capital Case

Published for NC Criminal Law on June 25, 2014.

Monday, the Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari filed in Ballard v. Pennsylvania. One interesting aspect of the case is that the defendant on whose behalf the petition was filed says that he never authorized it to be filed, and the lawyer who filed it says that he is not the inmate’s lawyer. The ... Read more

The post The Supreme Court Investigates Apparently Unauthorized Cert. Petition in Capital Case appeared first on North Carolina Criminal Law.