Can we just THROW texas out of the union already?

[Wezil]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
You said it. I didn't. I just assumed that they forgot how to write a motion since Zk and others have said it only takes a minimal amount of time.

Have you done their type of work before? You know what info was required, where it came from, and how long this takes? If the motion was faulty would it affect the later hearing? I don't know the answers to these questions and I presume you (ZK and the others) don't either. Again, the people closest to the file have provided an explanation. It trumps your shot in the dark.

[DinoDoc]

Lefty claims to be a lawyer. Being from Texas, I would assume he knows.

[SlowwHand]

Lefty is a retired lawyer. And yes, being from Texas you can assume he knows. We're bright.

[Wezil]

Did Lefty do DP work?

Still doesn't change the fact they were not late.

[Wezil]

I call Lefty Scaevola to the stand.

Let's get to the bottom of this.

[SlowwHand]

You have to catch Lefty. He's pretty flighty in his matured years.

[Wezil]

Maybe we should subpoena him?

[Lefty Scaevola]

Truns out that it was the Chief justice of the court that shut them out. When they tried to get an extension to file on the phone, rather than going in with a motion, Chief Justice Sharon Keller ordered the clerk to close promptly at 5:PM, even though they commonly do grant addtional time and hold the office open, and indeed in the very case were planning to do so until happened. They managed to to tick her off about something, probably something along the line of being too damn lazy to show up in person to make a motion for extention/continuance (to get more time just to file a worthless appeal for delay purposes) and demanding an extention on the phone. Likely there was something in the tome of the phone conversation as well.

As for writing an motion for extension/continuance, I could do it by hand in 5 minutes. So yes, they could have done in if they had just hopped in the car and gone to the courthouse.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Wezil
They are required to do everything they can within the bounds of ethics and the law to further their clients interests. NOT to do so would be unethical.

Including completing work timely, rather than waiting until the last minute. I consider any lawyer who skates deadlines to be defective. The appeal (assuming it had any merit, as opposed to merly being a delaying tactic) should have been filed days earlier. Pushing deadlines whether 5:PM or a few hours later, is a failure strategy.

[SlowwHand]

Game over. Lefty Scaevola has spoken.

[Ben Kenobi]

to support this awful and mediaeval practice.

You say that as if it were a bad thing.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
Including completing work timely, rather than waiting until the last minute. I consider any lawyer who skates deadlines to be defective. The appeal (assuming it had any merit, as opposed to merly being a delaying tactic) should have been filed days earlier. Pushing deadlines whether 5:PM or a few hours later, is a failure strategy.

My understanding of the timeline was the appeal was to be based upon an issue the SC had just that day decided to hear... How do you predict this in advance? The psychic team again?

[Wezil]

Twenty lawyers, including a state representative and a former appellate judge, on Wednesday filed a complaint against her with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. They say Keller improperly cut off appeals even though the U.S. Supreme Court had earlier in the day accepted a case on the propriety of lethal injection.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Game over. Lefty Scaevola has spoken.

He spoke but he wasn't entirely convincing.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


(a) Old Age

But if an earlier execution is demanded, then...
(b) [almost] anyway the condemned chooses

But if I must be the one who chooses, then...
(c) tied to a large charge of explosive and KABLOIE, instant vaporization.

The most truly painless methods of excution are not for the squemish.