Recent filing in Uttecht v. Brown

Last Friday, we filed an amicus brief supporting the respondent in Uttecht v. Brown, No. 06-413, on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. The case concerns the constitutional limitations on the dismissal for cause of jurors in capital cases based on their views about the death penalty. Students Steven Sigar and Brian Walker from the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic worked on the brief with us, as well as Prof. Susan Rozelle of Capital University Law School. The case will be argued in an afternoon session on April 17.