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  • Pennsylvania justice urges ban on defender group (death penalty appeal lawyers)

    09/04/2014 11:58:25 PM PDT · by Olog-hai
    Associated Press ^ | Sep 4, 2014 9:54 PM EDT | Mark Scolforo
    Pennsylvania’s chief justice wants the state Supreme Court to ban lawyers at an organization that currently handles many appeals by convicted murderers on the state's death row. Chief Justice Ronald Castille took that position in a rare single-justice opinion issued late Wednesday that resolved a number of issues surrounding a decision he wrote three years ago. In both opinions, Castille took aim at the Philadelphia-based Federal Community Defender Office, writing that the group has engaged in abusive and unethical practices that warrant removing its lawyers from all Pennsylvania cases. …